{"id":24246,"date":"2021-07-27T08:25:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T12:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=24246"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:29","slug":"bike-safety-research-is-going-high-res-with-new-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2021\/07\/27\/bike-safety-research-is-going-high-res-with-new-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike safety research is going \u2018high-res\u2019 with new technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle-600x336.png\" alt=\"A bicyclist pauses at an intersection to let another bicyclist pass by. \n\" class=\"wp-image-24247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle-600x336.png 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle-665x372.png 665w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle.png 1509w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Credit: Portland Bureau of Transportation via Flickr\/Creative Commons<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A UM-Dearborn professor has developed a bike-mounted lidar system that could help researchers and engineers design new strategies for safer streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Normally when one of our stories mentions lidar \u2014 the laser-powered locating technology that\u2019s similar to radar or sonar \u2014&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/umdearborn.edu\/news\/articles\/why-your-first-driverless-car-decades-not-years-away\">we\u2019re talking about autonomous vehicle navigation<\/a>. But UM-Dearborn Assistant Professor Fred Feng, who studies non-motorized mobility safety issues, recently developed an application for lidar that could be a big help for those working in the active mobility space.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the name of research,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/carltonreid\/2018\/10\/10\/unlucky-for-bicyclists-every-13th-passing-motorist-is-looking-elsewhere\/\">Feng has been strapping various sensors to bicycles and vehicles for years<\/a>, and to date, that\u2019s typically meant GPS and video cameras. They all work pretty well, especially if you\u2019re looking to capture intimate observational data about bicycle riders\u2019 real-world experiences. But Feng says this technology cocktail has a few important limitations. For example, if you want to take a detailed look at \u201covertaking\u201d \u2014 a common high-risk scenario in which a driver passes a cyclist on the road \u2014 camera systems can\u2019t really give you an accurate measurement of how close the car got to the cyclist. And even if you\u2019ve equipped your bike with a proximity sensor, it can only record a single measurement at the moment the car temporarily draws even with the cyclist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/umdearborn.edu\/news\/articles\/bike-safety-research-going-high-res-new-technology\">Read the rest of the story about using lidar technology for safety research on the UM-Dearborn news site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UM-Dearborn professor has developed a bike-mounted lidar system that could help researchers and engineers design new strategies for safer streets. Normally when one of our stories mentions lidar \u2014 the laser-powered locating technology that\u2019s similar to radar or sonar \u2014&nbsp;&nbsp;we\u2019re talking about autonomous vehicle navigation. But UM-Dearborn Assistant Professor Fred Feng, who studies non-motorized mobility safety issues,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2021\/07\/27\/bike-safety-research-is-going-high-res-with-new-technology\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-24246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-research"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle.png",1509,845,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle-400x266.png",400,266,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle-300x168.png",300,168,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle-768x430.png",665,372,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle-600x336.png",600,336,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle.png",1509,845,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle.png",1509,845,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle-658x300.png",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle-665x372.png",665,372,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bicycle-400x250.png",400,250,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A UM-Dearborn professor has developed a bike-mounted lidar system that could help researchers and engineers design new strategies for safer streets. Normally when one of our stories mentions lidar \u2014 the laser-powered locating technology that\u2019s similar to radar or sonar \u2014&nbsp;&nbsp;we\u2019re talking about autonomous vehicle navigation. But UM-Dearborn Assistant Professor Fred Feng, who studies non-motorized&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24248,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24246\/revisions\/24248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}