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Lumos helmet - image via Lumos.jpgCycling helmet with indicators beats Tesla Model 3 to design award
The Lumos Bicycle Helmet has won the prestigious Beazley Designs of the Year award for Transportation, beating off two other cycling products as well as the Tesla Model 3, at the Design Museum in London.
The helmet features front and rear LED lights, a set of indicators on the rear which are controlled by wireless controls on the handlebars, and can last a week on a single charge.
Funded on Kickstarter back in 2015, smashing its funding target of $125,000, the Beazley Design of the Year award is the most prestigious accolade placed upon the helmet.
The award wasn't won easily, either. The field the Lumos was competing against featured Tesla's heralded significantly more affordable Model 3 electric car which some commentators have said will begin to revolutionise the automotive industry.
The Lumos also beat off competition from cycling products smart cycling navigation tool BeeLine, and the OKO e-bike.
The Beazley Award website says that winners of its awards should be beautiful, emotive, benefit the environment, innovative, debate provoking, and problem solving.
>Read more: Hate remembering your lights? Lumos launches helmet with indicators
The individual who nominated the Lumos Helmet for the award is listed as Paul Marchant. In the nomination letter Marchant says the helmet addresses "the main reasons given for not taking up cycling in the UK."
He says that he hopes that "by enabling cyclists to signal and communicate with other road-users will encourage and enable cyclist and motorist to coexist and cooperate, in turn leading to safer roads for everyone."
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Nah, if they were going to call it "daemon", they wouldn't have taken to the Dauphiné, it would just have been launched quietly in the background...
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Most likely the US. Those are standard at a Target store.
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I'm sure that is often a benefit. However, I can also imagine it's not always practical or convenient....
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Huh! I've managed to make it this late in the day before discovering that it is World Bicycle Day today, 3rd June.
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Point taken, they're not totally divorced from one another and there will be an understanding of who is vulnerable and they can take liberties with...
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It builds infrastructure as you cycle??
The helmet is designed to help - but how successfull it will be only time wll tell.
"by enabling cyclists to signal and communicate with other road-users will encourage and enable cyclist and motorist to coexist and cooperate, in turn leading to safer roads for everyone."
I can communicate perfectly well with attentive drivers thank you Mr Marchant. I seriouly doubt that communicating with inattentive ones will be made any easier by a few blingy lights. At best, an irrelevance, at worst another excuse to add to the list of reasons why distracted drivers "couldn't be expected to see the cyslist".
Exactly this: the more flashy, plastic, well-meaning but unfounded tat that is added to the cyclist 'safety' armour, the more excuses the driver and lawyer (and judge and jury) have when faced with the death of a cyclist who wasn't wearing every item of irrelevant shit available.
It's a race to the bottom that makes drivers lazier and us all less safe.
"Marchant says the helmet addresses "the main reasons given for not taking up cycling in the UK."
Really?
Oh yeah: I can believe it educates drivers in the highway code, injects them with empathy, crushes their cars when they're unlicensed/untaxed/uninsured, bans repeat offenders and lays separate infrastructure as you pedal.
The article must have missed all that out. It'd take more than just a flashing helmet to win an award, wouldn't it?
ABSOLUTELY F*CKING SCANDALOUS.
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