Hi all,
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As part of my fourth year of university I am conducting a project into the application of augmented reality to enhance road safety for cyclists.
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The project itself looks into how cyclists would communicate right of way when vehicles eventually become autonomous and have no driver,
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I have attached below a short anonymous survey which will help me in gathering opinion on augmented reality from cyclists, it would be great if you could fill it in.
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[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfSKvFUqdj6G-GZ2uBNfP\_fDw7J4Kty3ZzHpoV86DgVe5v8aw/viewform?usp=sf\_link](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfSKvFUqdj6G-GZ2uBNfP_fDw7J4Kty3ZzHpoV86DgVe5v8aw/viewform?usp=sf_link)
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Cheers.
by cameronmcdonaldd
3 Comments
Been a Waymo tester for a couple years and biking most of my life. This is definitely relevant to my interests.
I have to disagree with the premise of the project. It sounds like this would end up being another victim blaming tool, but instead of “why weren’t you wearing hi-vis”, or “ why weren’t you wearing a helmet”, it’s “why weren’t you wearing your augmented reality headset?”
If autonomous vehicles are not safe to cycle around, we should not accommodate them with expensive cyclist safety equipment, but rather we should ban them from public roads until they are proven to be safe to a high degree of confidence.
It’s bad enough we’ve already surrendered all our street space to cars, but we’re giving up some radio spectrum to cars too. There’s absolutely no chance of this being an equitable system that improves bicycling when the automotive industry is behind its development.
This V2X bandwidth will just deliver advertising when all the dust settles, so you can take your survey and shove it.