Škoda have invented a bike bell designed to penetrate noise cancelling headphones, with the goal of reducing cyclist/pedestrian collisions, and then *released the design for free* so anyone can make it and more people can be kept safe!
https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/duobell/
#cycling #bike #biking #quaxing #walking #running
@SimonCHulse its awesome that they did this and that they have opened the design up. But its odd that there's no obvious way to buy it. You can't 3D print a bell so its not like we can all go do it ourselves. Why go through all the other hoopla without making the thing?
@Niall @SimonCHulse the “why” is because car companies love making up solutions to cycling safety non-problems for PR and moral licensing the real damage they do to cyclists
See also Volvo’s victim blaming spray paint
(Oof, I’m extra grumpy today 🤣)
@edeverett @Niall @SimonCHulse woah, I saw the OP and my immediate reaction was "I'm sure there will still be thinking cap wearers in the replies mad at capitalism somehow" and then reflected that I'm probably being too negative and shouldn't assume the worst.
This is the second reply. Thanks for confirming and reinforcing my misantropy!
