Angel Bicycle Helmet equips cyclists with a halo of light to help them be seen in traffic

Gimmick. I'm choosing not to take part in the Lighting and Hi-Viz Arms Race.

Gregoire500 - spoilsport!

That looks like the sort thing you'd expect to see strapped to the head of a Guantanamo inmate, for sleep deprivation torture and humiliation.

Completely pointless and futile. More bloody rubbish that won't work. If it doesn't deflect motor vehicle it's a waste of time.

What cyclists need is proximity triggered adhesive mines. Any driver of a vehicle passing too close gets his own personal inferno. It would turn the tables on drivers, one mistake and they're dead.

Instantly, all drivers would become extremely aware of cyclists.

It would be the end of SMIDSY and dangerous close passes.

Any drivers incapable of learning - those with the hardcore careless & incompetent driving gene would very rapidly be expunged from the gene-pool.

Never mind religious extremists- teenage hoodies would throw rocks at you for looking like a massive nerd. The thing would also be power- hungry, and car drivers already think cyclists are holier- than- thou, without the halo.

I don't know about that, but I do know I don't want any Evangelical Christians either throwing themselves into the road to embrace me, or conversely, throwing rocks and calling me a blasphemer!

What a total waste of money! Why is it that cyclist are seen to be gullible fools ready to be relieved of their money? Maybe be because so many are, sad really...

Great idea. As an assertive rider myself - with over 30 years commuting experience - I say you still need to be as visible as possible. Not that it will guarantee the idiots will see you - most of em too busy reading/composing text messages, chatting on mobile phones or simply not looking for a cyclist.

You'll never know whether it will save your life or not because nobody will ever stop and say 'do you know, if you hadn't had that helmet with flashing lights I wouldn't have seen you....'.

Are front flashing lights illegal? I thought http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2559/regulation/6/made changed the rules.

(Edit: Looks like the illegal-flashers claim has been edited out since I made this comment...)

Training which aims to match whatever infrastructure and conditions are available is certainly only less important than infrastructure and conditions being as good as possible in the first place, and of course this correctly-viewed-as-illegal (in most places) nonsense is certainly a distraction for both drivers (on the spot) AND the metaphorical road to real measures for safety.

There is no sign that the War of Max Lux is ending soon -- the light at the end of the tunnel is so bright that you can't tell where the tunnel ends.

Metaphors aside, that this contraption is actually on the market shows how very important subjective safety is to people, even if real safety is obscured by fog. Proper skills are only a partial solution, and - dammit! - you VC folks simply don't realize how scared people are when riding in traffic! As I have said before: People who want physical separation have compromised too much to motorization and vehicular cycing supports underestimate how much fear people have.

What we can all agree is that no one should buy this, it should be considered for a ban due to design issues mentioned in this article and - hopefully also - if people already have legal illumination on their bike they should buy what's required for their lovers, friends... and strangers!

Please also see http://greenideafactory.blogspot.com/2010/09/dont-believe-hyper-illumina...

gimmick. Spend £50 on some more lights (or just buy some knog type helmet light for an existing helmet)