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Cyclists Gather in New York to Raise Bicycle Safety Awareness

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Dudek Law Firm

Cyclist and cyclist advocates gathered in New York to raise awareness and to petition city leaders to do more to promote bicycling safety, according to the Wall Street Journal. The seventh annual memorial ride presented by the Street Memorial Project visited sites where fatal bicycle accidents occurred across downtown New York. While they stressed that efforts to improve safety have been effective in recent years in New York, there is always room for improvement. “I think that they’re doing a better job,” says Ryan Kuonen, an organizer with Neighbors Allied for Good Growth. She believes speeding vehicles are biggest threat to cyclists in New York City. “Speeding, illegal turns, not paying attention, all that stuff…the difference between death and injury is speeding.” Twenty-four cyclists were killed in New York in 2011. The Department of Transportation did not respond to requests for comment by the Wall Street Journal, but it did…
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New Bike Uses Brain Waves to Change Gears

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Dudek Law Firm

When Toyota was developing its Prius hybrid vehicle, they hired a marketing firm, Deeplocal, to help with the campaign. Instead, Deeplocal developed a mind-controlled bike instead. Patrick Miller played a key part in the development of the bicycle, which debuts at the South by Southwest music, film and interactive festival in March in Austin, Texas. Miller designed a bicycle helmet that reads your brainwaves and transmits them to the bike’s gears. Parlee Cycles, a carbon-fiber racing bike manufacturer, built the frame. The rider wears a neuro-headset inside the helmet that reads his or her brain waves and detects signals. “That translates the signals into commands:  Shift up or shift down,” said Miller. “That then talks to a microcontroller insider here [pointing to a thick part of the bike’s frame] which I put a big antenna on, so hopefully there won’t be any communication issues. That then talks to the electronic…
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Newport Coast Woman Pleads Guilty for Causing Fatal Bicycle Accident

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Dudek Law Firm

A Newport Coast woman pleaded guilty in February to vehicular manslaughter charges, according to Patch.com. Danae Marie Miller, 23, is sentenced to four years in state prison. She was drunk when she struck and killed 44-year-old cyclist Amine Britel with her car in February of 2011. Prosecutors also claim that Miller was texting at the time of the fatal bicycle accident. Britel was riding his bicycle on Joaquin Hills Road when Miller hit him in her Volkswagen Jetta. Statistics show that drinking and driving and texting while driving each increase your chances of getting in an accident significantly—so doing both at the same time undoubtedly raises them exponentially. According to reports, Miller had been drinking at her place of employment and was on her way home—her BAC measured .1 when tested two hours after the crash. She had been cited for 15 traffic violations previously, according to court reports. There…
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