Could this technology be the answer to less car-bike conflict?

Audi, BMC and Spoke Safety rally together around new tech to save lives

 C-V2X dashboard
(Image credit: Spoke Safety)

You’re in the bike lane, riding along and a passing car wants to make a right turn. What happens next? It depends. Do you, the rider, see that the car is making the turn? Does the driver of the turning car see that you’re coming from behind? Do other road users recognize the scenario and adapt? For the past decade, the answer in these questions has increasingly been no. 

In 2021, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NTSA) reported 42,915 roadway fatalities, a 10.5% increase over 2020. More than half of these fatalities involve vulnerable road users, which is everyone not in a vehicle, including cyclists, who represent approximately 1,000 of those annual fatalities (—that's 19 cyclist fatalities every week!). As with many things, this is a problem that can be solved with better communication. 

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