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Safety inflation: The next level
We're now subject to "safety inflation," where we're told to buy product
after product to keep us ever safer. There's no such thing as safe enough! For example: What if you're cycling along at night, outfitted with full reflectors plus a taillight, but some motorist doesn't recognize that the pedaling motion he sees up ahead is due to someone pedaling a bicycle? What you need is something that will project an icon of a bicycle on your back! And if you should be preparing to stop, it should project a stop sign. Turning right? I should project a right turn signal. All the tech workers in Silicon Valley know this, which is why all the intelligent ones have these icon projectors fitted to stalks attached to their seatposts: http://www.onislam.net/english/healt...ing-safer.html I'm not saying these should be mandatory. But if you've got a helmet, a flashing strobe light front and rear plus a horizontal flag sticking out from your bike, you're just not safe enough. It's your own fault if you get hit because you don't have a nighttime icon projector. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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Safety inflation: The next level
what's the actress do ? stick up pubs ?
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On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 23:02:28 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote: We're now subject to "safety inflation," where we're told to buy product after product to keep us ever safer. There's no such thing as safe enough! For example: What if you're cycling along at night, outfitted with full reflectors plus a taillight, but some motorist doesn't recognize that the pedaling motion he sees up ahead is due to someone pedaling a bicycle? What you need is something that will project an icon of a bicycle on your back! And if you should be preparing to stop, it should project a stop sign. Turning right? I should project a right turn signal. All the tech workers in Silicon Valley know this, which is why all the intelligent ones have these icon projectors fitted to stalks attached to their seatposts: http://www.onislam.net/english/healt...ing-safer.html I'm not saying these should be mandatory. But if you've got a helmet, a flashing strobe light front and rear plus a horizontal flag sticking out from your bike, you're just not safe enough. It's your own fault if you get hit because you don't have a nighttime icon projector. I've noticed that when driving at night and you come upon an emergency vehicle, say a road repair, or telephone pole and there is a truck there with a emergency light bar - yellowy flashing lights on a, maybe 18 - 24 inch bar across the width of the truck - that people seem to slow down immediately. Another thing that seems to be noticed if those "road flares". they had a nail on one end and you stabbed them into the pavement and than ignited them. A vehicle burning on the edge of the road also attracts a lot of notice. I've seen cars stopped for a hundred yards in both direction. {people even get out of their cars and walk, imagine that "Walk", to get a closer view. But I suppose that the weak point is that these things are "old Hat" and you will never get a mention of the Internet if you "discover" one of these. But you know, a few rags and a broomstick and a can of kerosene and a cigarette lighter could probably get one a lot of space on the highway :-) (on the other hand, in the U.S. it might get one arrested for contaminating the atmosphere :-) -- cheers, John B. |
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Safety inflation: The next level
On 29/06/2015 1:02 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
We're now subject to "safety inflation," where we're told to buy product after product to keep us ever safer. There's no such thing as safe enough! For example: What if you're cycling along at night, outfitted with full reflectors plus a taillight, but some motorist doesn't recognize that the pedaling motion he sees up ahead is due to someone pedaling a bicycle? What you need is something that will project an icon of a bicycle on your back! And if you should be preparing to stop, it should project a stop sign. Turning right? I should project a right turn signal. All the tech workers in Silicon Valley know this, which is why all the intelligent ones have these icon projectors fitted to stalks attached to their seatposts: http://www.onislam.net/english/healt...ing-safer.html I'm not saying these should be mandatory. But if you've got a helmet, a flashing strobe light front and rear plus a horizontal flag sticking out from your bike, you're just not safe enough. It's your own fault if you get hit because you don't have a nighttime icon projector. I don't need a device to project images on my back but I did find a nice recipe for oatmeal cake on that website. |
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Safety inflation: The next level
On Monday, June 29, 2015 at 8:14:52 AM UTC-4, John B. wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 23:02:28 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: We're now subject to "safety inflation," where we're told to buy product after product to keep us ever safer. There's no such thing as safe enough! For example: What if you're cycling along at night, outfitted with full reflectors plus a taillight, but some motorist doesn't recognize that the pedaling motion he sees up ahead is due to someone pedaling a bicycle? What you need is something that will project an icon of a bicycle on your back! And if you should be preparing to stop, it should project a stop sign. Turning right? I should project a right turn signal. All the tech workers in Silicon Valley know this, which is why all the intelligent ones have these icon projectors fitted to stalks attached to their seatposts: http://www.onislam.net/english/healt...ing-safer.html I'm not saying these should be mandatory. But if you've got a helmet, a flashing strobe light front and rear plus a horizontal flag sticking out from your bike, you're just not safe enough. It's your own fault if you get hit because you don't have a nighttime icon projector. I've noticed that when driving at night and you come upon an emergency vehicle, say a road repair, or telephone pole and there is a truck there with a emergency light bar - yellowy flashing lights on a, maybe 18 - 24 inch bar across the width of the truck - that people seem to slow down immediately. Another thing that seems to be noticed if those "road flares". they had a nail on one end and you stabbed them into the pavement and than ignited them. A vehicle burning on the edge of the road also attracts a lot of notice. I've seen cars stopped for a hundred yards in both direction. {people even get out of their cars and walk, imagine that "Walk", to get a closer view. But I suppose that the weak point is that these things are "old Hat" and you will never get a mention of the Internet if you "discover" one of these. But you know, a few rags and a broomstick and a can of kerosene and a cigarette lighter could probably get one a lot of space on the highway :-) (on the other hand, in the U.S. it might get one arrested for contaminating the atmosphere :-) -- cheers, John B. TRY A LONG TRIP TO ANTARTICA |
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Safety inflation: The next level
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