UAE motorists, lend me your ears - and eyes for that matter. If you tire of being tailgated, cut-up and overtaken at warp speed on the inside lane, don't say it with your hands; say it with LED lights.
India-based Gagandeep Singh is the mastermind behind a revolutionary rear window LED system offering "feedback" to so-called bad drivers by means of flashing signs such as "Keep distance!" and "Driving slow!"
The 40-inch LED matrix can be programmed with many phrases and images, all intended to educate those who stubbornly refuse to "follow highway rules…(grrrrrr )", according to Singh.
Whether the inventor's prototype will reach Gulf shores remains to be seen. In any case, it would surely need to come in a variety of languages and include preprogrammed messages such as "Completely lost, GPS failed again" and "Stop flashing, no space to change lanes".
Singh guarantees that his safety-signage doesn't obscure the driver's rear-window view, and next on his list of inventions for the road: a Bluetooth receiver, allowing drivers to update the messages via their mobile phone. Which all sounds very promising.
One can't help but wonder, however, whether bombarding and blinding other drivers with flashing phrases might not send tempers flaring rather than improve road safety.
Surely, five-lane highways are already difficult enough to navigate without adding reading and typing to the list.
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