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Preventing Cycling Incidents

Preventing Cycling Incidents

Team: Digital Builders

Project Details

Project Description: Cycling is a wonderful activity: the World Health Organization strongly recommends it and says that it can reduce the risk of cancers, heart disease, and diabetes. The US CDC highly recommends bicycling, and says that bicycles can improve cognition, decrease anxiety, assist with sleep, decrease obesity, strengthen bones and muscles, and more. Also they reduce or eliminate consumption of fossil fuels, provide less noise pollution, and reduce traffic congestion. However, cyclists are dying across the world at an ever-increasing rate. What is considered a relatively safe activity is producing many fatalities, that are as much as 37% preventable. The cost of each crash has been steadily rising, coming in at an average of $77,308. Worse yet, there is currently no device that effectively decreases the risk of crashing for cyclists, and bicycle helmets have been proven to be ineffective at preventing fatalities. A bicycle safety device that effectively prevents crashes is urgently needed to prevent needless deaths occurring every year. So we developed a solution and we hope that our device can encourage more people to bicycle, and in turn be able to experience the many physical, emotional and monetary benefits of biking
Project Theme: Automate the Surroundings
Project Category: Hardware Projects
Country: Sudan