While the quantity of traffic accident fatalities in the US is fortunately diminishing, there were more cyclists and pedestrian deaths on the streets in 2018, the latest year for which NHTSA information is accessible. There were 51 more cyclist passings that year than in 2017, an ascent of 6.3 percent. A recent European Transport Safety Council report, in the meantime, discovered that 19,450 cyclists passed on EU streets somewhere in the range of 2010 and 2018.
To reinforce street security, Ford concocted an approach to help cyclists communicate: a jacket that displays emoticon. The prototype has an LED display on the back that is connected to wireless attached to the handlebars. A cyclist may utilize it to display turn signals or a peril symbol. They could likewise demonstrate their general mood: happy, sad or somewhere in between.
Ford worked with cyclists and industrial designers from Designworks on the Emoji Jacket, which they made as a major aspect of the Share the Road safety campaign. Regardless of whether you’ll have the option to purchase an Emoji Jacket anytime is not yet clear. If it goes at a sale, however, it may assist cyclists with communicating as the need should arise to drivers in a basic, visual way.
