Comments on: Laser Crosswalk Saves Pedestrians From a Painful Death

By: Brandon Stocks

Brandon Stocks — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:22:47 +0000

How about lasers to zap jay walkers?

By: fizzytinky

fizzytinky — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:43:42 +0000

Great for an initial concept. As technology improves many of the comments raised here will be addresed.
Perhaps an advanced form of holography, that is also responsive to those who are colorblind and is also weather proof to some degree.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:00:04 +0000

obviously some king of fog or mist will need to be implemented which will make the visibility problem even worse.

By: yeahiknowright

yeahiknowright — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 08:05:00 +0000

If it’s red what about the colorblind people?

By: Lorne

Lorne — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:18:03 +0000

This is nonsense right from the get go. Whether it might improve safety or not is quite irrelevant, because it’s not even possible in the first place. Lasers cannot form real visible images in empty space as they suggest. (Not with any technology presently known anyway.)

By: Sheldon

Sheldon — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:23:35 +0000

Everyone saying this is a good idea must misunderstand how crosswalks at traffic light controlled intersections work. Pedestrians cross on GREEN lights. Meaning the traffic in the concept photo would be stopped for the red light anyways. This is really only a precaution against drivers that might run the light (which shouldn’t have their license anyways), or left turning traffic that have a green light…on that note, how is a left turning vehicle supposed to make a good decision if there’s red lasers giving him tunnel vision.
The designer of this concept must be assuming that all vehicles drive straight all the time, traffic lights don’t mean anything to the average driver, and that the only reason a car should stop is for pedestrians. Good try though.

By: Guy

Guy — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:13:59 +0000

You can take it a step further, and make some money by having the laser animations doing some graphic commercials…

By: Taylor

Taylor — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:35:08 +0000

Are there so many people getting hit in crosswalks, that, even if this would work, was worth the cost to put in place?

By: jj

jj — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:13:56 +0000

Wow. Well, that’s nice and I’m sure it would work well, but it looks massively expensive when you think about installing it at crosswalks all across a city. Maybe it would be cheaper to put up signs reminding people to look both ways before they cross.

By: Arielle

Arielle — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:45:59 +0000

Just wanted to correct a grammar pet peeve in case no one else has. It’s “would have run”.