Add a flashing turn signal to your cycling jacket

While I applaud this idea from the Lifehacker website for incorporating flashing LED lights into a cycling jacket, I would recommend something that looks more like an arrow, if the intention is to indicate turns.

Having said that, anything that makes a cyclist more visible at night is a good thing.

Comments

[AlanM]

Sometimes I just have to laugh as the well-intentioned yet poorly-implemented and demonstrated ideas.
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Let's see, we're going to be riding a night, so let's start with a black hoodie. Right.
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Now that we're invisible in the dark, let's put a very small cluster of lights on the back that blink a bit. From a distance, they just look like a blinking point source, in distinguishable in left vs right side of the black hoodie.
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Now we're sure we're safe, so let's go cruise the dark streets.