These RFID Tags allow Danish Cyclists to turn traffic Lights inexperienced

It actually need to be heaven to be a cyclist in Denmark. You get beautiful, dedicated infrastructure, like this new bridge. You get cities that run analyses displaying how bikes are just right for people, and automobiles are not. And now, if you reside in Aarhus, which you can get a different tag to lend a hand beat the visitors lights.

Aarhus, Denmark’s second largest metropolis, is at the moment working a trial the place cyclists are given RFID tags that they connect to their wheels. As they way a junction, the tag sends a signal to a close-by reader, which in flip switches the sunshine to green. Cyclists by no means even have to prevent, even as automobile drivers on the other aspect of the junction are brought to a standstill.

 

 

 

 

 

“In Aarhus, now we have a imaginative and prescient of serving to the cyclists more and more to get the cars out of the interior metropolis. So it’s a good suggestion to make the way spherical the town higher for the cyclists and possibly now not that excellent for the cars,” says Louise Overgaard, who works on the project for town.

The tag-and-reader combo is the biking similar of the electromagnetic road coils that fluctuate traffic lights when cars go over them. but it’s peculiar for this type of machine to be in location for cyclists. In most locations, cyclists have to break the legislation, technically speaking, in the event that they wish to pass in the course of the metropolis at a reasonable velocity.

The readers are in position at only one medium-sized junction and simplest 200 cyclists have the tags. however Overgaard says there’s an excellent chance the challenge will be extended to other elements of the town. “i do not suppose it’ll go metropolis-broad. however within the internal metropolis there are a lot of cyclists, and we want to have fewer automobiles and extra cyclists.”

Rita Westergaard, from identity-advice, the company at the back of the gadget, says it prices about 40% not up to magnetic coils within the highway, primarily since you shouldn’t have to dig up the surface to place them in. So, it will not be too laborious to put within the know-how other locations.

must we start feeling sorry for Danish car drivers?