The Shield TL is a bicycle light with a difference: Its distinctive form promises to make the bike highly visible to car radars – a digital shield to protect cyclists. The Collision Avoidance Systems (CAS) fitted to new cars is a virtual co-pilot for drivers, a radar that looks out for potential hazards on the road ahead – great if…
The deficit in our engineering workforce comes at time when innovation has never been so vital to our economy – let alone our efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Expert design and engineering can be a powerful catalyst in enabling a modal shift to greener modes of travel. Ann Dowling is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and has spoken…
We love a good bicycle caravan. In an age preoccupied with speed and gizmos, their snail-like pace and diminutive size isn’t for everyone, but travel is always more rewarding in the slow lane. DIY engineer extraordinaire, Paul Elkin, built the nomad as a lightweight, cheap, insulated bicycle camper to be used for year-round slow touring in comfort or a mobile…
The Notabag is reflective backpack that is helping push the disposable plastic carrier bags towards extinction. The lightweight and reusable design is made from a highly reflective material and is ideal for cyclists because it packs down to a pouch small enough to fit in a saddle bag. In common with a carrier bag, each Notabag is made out of a single piece of material and…
Future generations will react to today’s ambivalence towards road danger in the same way as we recoil at the thought of the open sewers of Victorian London. So says Danny Dorling, a professor from Sheffield University argues road safety is a public health not a transport issue, and until it is properly addressed people will continue to die. Compared to cancer, and…
04/10/16
