Tobi: As a class we found the presentation to be very cool. We liked your idea of using the sidewalk to alert pedestrians of the car's intention and the use of moving lights. Someone made the comment that cars could be parked where the light was moving along the curb and problematic because of the cost of something like to line every street may not be feasible.
Andreas: The idea of the light coming from the headlights was good because Lyn liked the idea of lighting up the pedestrians in the path of oncoming cars.
Jenny S: The windshield screen idea was great, but another group is exploring using flexible oled stickers on the windshield (see flux's group). We really liked the idea of lighting up the street zones with the solar powered light.
Lauren: It was great to activate the corners with the advertisements and making them interactive, we think it that defining these pedestrian zones might be a good direction to go. Lyn felt that the advertisements might add to the distraction that pedestrians already have.
Jenny: We felt that adding responsibility to the pedestrian is a good idea but perhaps giving them more information, like how fast a car is going wouldn't neccessarily make the pedestrians more aware. The light sticks could be stolen. It would be hard to regulate something like that.
We found that our group was very similar to Rob's group so in order to diverge from them and still stick with accidents in an urban intersection, we proposed we work with the existing infrastructure and use lighting to manipulate that to facilitate communication within the intersection. Rob's group will take the angle of manipulating a signaling system to increase communication of the pedestrians and drivers. Everyone was enthusiastic about the idea of redesigning the crosswalk, sidewalks, markings, zones... the structure of intersections.
We tightened our problem and specified more factors. Lyn mentioned that our designs from here on out should correlate very closely to them. Please take a look at the list below before moving forward and add anything you think we might have missed.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Added/Possible Situations of Danger
Problem & Factors
Problem:
Manipulating the infrastructure in urban intersection to increase communication between pedestrians and the driver.
Factors:
-Pedestrians don’t heed traffic laws.
-Pedestrians are most in danger when cars are in the intersection
-Pedestrians don’t know what the driver’s intentions are.
-The drivers don’t know what the pedestrian’s intentions are.
-Pedestrians anticipate drivers will see and react to them.
-Pedestrians are crossing when they see the same way traffic light is green whether it is safe or not
-Pedestrians are hasty to cross the street and don’t wait for the signal
-Pedestrians are impatient
-The signals are not abided
-Pedestrians will not change their behavior.
- the driver needs to know where all pedestrians are (the driver needs to be warned)
-the streets are too dark at nights
Manipulating the infrastructure in urban intersection to increase communication between pedestrians and the driver.
Factors:
-Pedestrians don’t heed traffic laws.
-Pedestrians are most in danger when cars are in the intersection
-Pedestrians don’t know what the driver’s intentions are.
-The drivers don’t know what the pedestrian’s intentions are.
-Pedestrians anticipate drivers will see and react to them.
-Pedestrians are crossing when they see the same way traffic light is green whether it is safe or not
-Pedestrians are hasty to cross the street and don’t wait for the signal
-Pedestrians are impatient
-The signals are not abided
-Pedestrians will not change their behavior.
- the driver needs to know where all pedestrians are (the driver needs to be warned)
-the streets are too dark at nights
GPS LED Crossing Stick
My idea is to assist the pedestrians cross the street. The LED's are sensitive to approaching cars. As the car speeds up towards the pedestrian, the light flashes brighter and faster, communicating to the pedestrian the drivers intentions. GPS tracking system allows the driver to see a cluster of pedestrians in his GPS screen.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
WallFX - Keep Pedestrians on Sidewalks?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obQ7m793iMI
WallFX is a revolution in public space wall advertising and entertainment. It’s digital wall technology that delivers eye-catching dynamic visual content can be projected onto virtually any surface, creating a full body interactive wall experience that allows users to control interactive wall special effects, advertising or games with simple hand and body motions.
GestureTek’s patented video gesture control software for dynamic wall displays tracks and responds to the subtlest of body movements, allowing for real-time interaction between the user and the display, and turning any vertical surface into an exciting interactive wall projection and visual display system.
Videowalls are ideal in malls, arenas, tourist attractions and other public spaces. WallFX is a captivating tool for wall advertising and wall entertainment that will mesmerize users of all ages.
Could we use this to keep pedestrians on sidewalks?
Oct 9th - Lyn's E-mail
Parsons & KISD team,
It appears that your concept is established. A couple interesting concepts coming along. I still want to see a list of specific factors that are affecting your problem. Be SPECIFIC as it will help you to better solve the problem.
See you on Friday,
Lyn
It appears that your concept is established. A couple interesting concepts coming along. I still want to see a list of specific factors that are affecting your problem. Be SPECIFIC as it will help you to better solve the problem.
See you on Friday,
Lyn
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Turn Indicator
The idea behind the turn indicator is that the pedest should realize intention of a driver when he or she wants to make a turn at an intersection. That should happen before the car is actually changing its position.
The ways of indicating this turn to a pedest can be very diferent. I decided for a way which is implemented into the car (or even into teh headlight). The idea was to use a laser or projector system, which prject the drivers way of turning on the floor in front of pedestrians. I must also be flexible, kind of the addaptive curve lights, that the indicator is always pointing in front of pedestrians and not suddenly somewhere else.
The following pictures show really ruff how this could possibly work:
The ways of indicating this turn to a pedest can be very diferent. I decided for a way which is implemented into the car (or even into teh headlight). The idea was to use a laser or projector system, which prject the drivers way of turning on the floor in front of pedestrians. I must also be flexible, kind of the addaptive curve lights, that the indicator is always pointing in front of pedestrians and not suddenly somewhere else.
The following pictures show really ruff how this could possibly work:
Monday, October 6, 2008
Virtual Wall
Virtual Wall could protect pedestrians with plasma lasers.
We expected that the first practical application for plasma laser technology would be a death ray gun, but Hanyoung Lee had another thought. He designed what's called the Virtual Wall using plasma lasers to make it safer for legal jay walkers to cross the street. The system displays a giant virtual wall right where the crosswalk begins and displays images of people walking to get the point across to pointy-headed drivers. We're all for getting drivers to stop before the white line at a red light so their front bumpers don't bogart the walking path, but we imagine municipalities might have a hard time stomaching the cost of four plasma laser walls at every intersection. We'd like to see a working Virtual Wall do its thing, as all we've got are these renderings below that show what the wall would look like if it were real. We've seen renderings of death ray guns too, however, and still don't have one in our hands.
Outer Airbags to Protect Pedestrians?
Toyoda Gosei (an offshoot of Toyota) prototypes:
they’ve equipped cars with camera and radar sensors to detect pedestrians and (presumably) activate the outer airbags to protect anyone within range of the car. The hood airbag is supposed to cushion your head while the grill airbag cushions your waist, making the fact that you are getting run over a teensy bit more comfy.
I know that this will not help our group, but it was very interesting.
Skype Conclusions (Oct 6th)
Jenny and I will come up with more concepts for Friday and prepare for class presentation to Lyn.
Andreas, Tobi, and Jenni will send images of intersection research.
Andreas will post his concepts.
We will meet on Monday on Skype; Jenny and I will update about Fridays meeting with Lyn.
Andreas, Tobi, and Jenni will send images of intersection research.
Andreas will post his concepts.
We will meet on Monday on Skype; Jenny and I will update about Fridays meeting with Lyn.
Topic - what do you think?
Looking how to improve right turns in URBAN intersections?
Looking how to improve URBAN intersections?
Looking how to improve URBAN intersections?
By Friday - PARSONS (OCT 6)
Focus topic
- define
- discuss
- prove
- look at
- physical
- psychological
- environment
- simple - not more stuff
- do not try to change behavior, only work with it
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