South-Korean product designer Hanyoung Lee has come up with a safety device that could make traffic lights obsolete, or at least improve their effectiveness.
His so-called Virtual Wall is designed for busy city streets. Instead of showing a red light when it’s time for pedestrians to cross the street, Lee’s Wall projects a curtain-like, two-dimensional image of giant people crossing the street.
The real pedestrians walk behind their virtual counterparts.
Lee’s design—which hasn’t made it off the drawing board yet—works thanks to a stack of laser projectors installed in poles on opposites sides of the street.
Digital renderings of the Wall can be found on Yanko Design, and while there’s no word on an actual prototype, the device would likely cost more than traditional traffic lights.
Another potential issue might be how to activate the Wall so as not to startle motorists approaching an intersection as I don’t think there’s any amber light function yet…we’ll see in due time if this makes it to the market. =))
Personally, I felt this was quite brilliant. But more field testing has to be done one driver’s reactions when encountering one of these.
good idea.
more info pls.
thanks
Hey Hikmet,
As far as I know, this is just but a concept…unfortunately.
We’ll just have to wait and see if it does come to a traffic light near you.
It’s a pretty useful as there will be times when you completely forget to check for traffic lights on your sides or your top – when in your car..
This concept puts the traffic signals in your face – great for sleepy drivers and blur ones (like me)
Lol.
niffty!
hope you’ve registered it at the paitent offices!
clever grafix mixing theretoo!