Category: reflective vest

Reflective scarf – make you disappear at night

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The reflective fabric scarf figured let people disappear conscious. Three questions about the cloth, bearing celebrities like statement.

 

Why a scarf that draws people from view?

“Our privacy disappears because technology takes on life. Wherever we are, we are committed, even at times when we do not want. ”

 

How ‘conjures “this scarf wearer from sight?

“In the wool sit strips of reflective material processed. If someone is using his Smartphone takes a picture with the flash of your disappears by this material light from the photo. The only thing left is the reflective scarf. ”

 

What are your future plans?

“We also have a tie and designed a phone cover of the same material, and there is a sweater and a reflective vest. But that’s just the beginning. “

BMW motorcycle safety jacket with integrated airbag

The BMW Street AIR system is a combination of a jacket and a safety vest with an integrated airbag system for a marked increase in the passive safety of motorcyclists. The high-tech system protects (along with the usual protection elements of the coat), chest, shoulders, legs and back key. The system also reduces the risk that the helmet comes in contact with a clavicle. The system can’t connect to the vehicle to be used on any motorcycle or scooter (both the rider and the pillion passenger) and consists of two parts:

 

– Vest Street AIR met airbag

– BMW Jack Street AIR Dry – other coats are in preparation for 2017, including the Jack Street Guard AIR.

 

BMW Street Air system is from now on sale at the BMW Motorrad dealers for € 1,600. With Street AIR system brings BMW Motorrad worldwide (except in the United States) an airbag system on the market for use on public roads, where previously the API system (Active Protection Inflatable) with the suit DoubleR Race AIR exclusively for the circuit and only offered in Europe.

 

The Street AIR system is intelligent, efficient, fast, autonomous, reliable, and ergonomic and Dekra checked. Zippers on the sides and press studs in the neck and under the arms are connecting the jacket to the vest. Worn under a jacket matching BMW is the BMW Street AIR system absolutely watertight and there is no connection to the motorcycle so that the system can be used on any brand and type of motorcycle.

 

BMW Street AIR system comprises electronics (hardware activation algorithm and software) and a compressed air system (gas generator and airbag with eleven liters volume). All components, including the lithium-ion battery are installed in the back of the vest in a rugged and waterproof housing. This is also the main, that the vest is activated. When the wearer then the zipper (with sensor) closes to the front of the jacket, the system is automatically activated. BMW Street AIR system is available which is a perfect fit and wearing comfort guaranteed for all builds and it can be hardly noticeable worn thanks to the low weight of the reflective vest (approximately two kilos) in various sizes.

 

Three sensors on the left and right shoulder and back monitor the driving situation. The special activation algorithm detects an accident and the system can start in 30 to 60 milliseconds in which the airbag inflates in 25 milliseconds. Extreme reliability is guaranteed through intensive testing procedures, in the form of various crash tests and simulations.

 

The lithium-ion battery (fully charged and activated system) up to 25 hours, and charging takes place via a micro-USB connector to the body with an adapter (230 V, 50 Hz) that comes standard with the system. The charging time is approximately six hours on a fully discharged battery. An LED on the left sleeve of the jacket shows the status of the BMW Street AIR system – including the operation and the charge status of the battery.

 

When protects the BMW Street AIR system?

BMW Street AIR system is designed for transport and it also allows limited off-road usage. The system recognizes critical situations and intervenes:

The system activates itself only when necessary and not in crashes at speeds below 20 km / h. The critical situation is continuously analyzed and if it develops gradually, the air bag later or even not activated fully.

 

Jack AIR Dry Street.

Jack Street AIR Dry is a waterproof, suitable for touring endure jacket with API preparation (Active Protection Inflatable) which combines it with the Vest Street AIR. The jacket is wind and waterproof with a breathable, water-repellent coating. On chest and back are unique, long ventilation zippers and material reinforcements are arranged on in vulnerable places. Furthermore, the jacket features width adjustment at waist and sleeve hem, two waterproof pockets with flaps, two chest pockets, one sleeve pocket on the left and one bag down the back. On the chest, sleeves and back is reflective material.

 

Jack Street AIR Dry is available in two different colors (black and gray) and various sizes: 38-48 for women and 48-60 for men. Other jackets are in preparation for 2017, including the Jack Street Guard AIR.

Safety vest for the safety of motorcyclists

We may not know it but in the department of Pas-de-Calais, is a “gentleman motorcycle.” That is a point person to go to the competent authorities (town hall, the Department, the Region …) difficulties encountered and reported on the road by drivers of motorcycles with safety vest. Mr. Motorbike is Lagache Michel, and was present at Lens for these two days of training. Without otherworldliness of this biker always book a reassuring statement: “Bikers are still much better equipped than a few years. But sometimes when common sense is not enough, we need legislation to strengthen security … “And Michel Lagache to demonstrate the airbag reflective vest motorcycle, not mandatory but highly recommended.

 

However, since 20 November, a decree requires PTW riders and passengers to wear approved gloves. Violators must pay 68 euro fine and lose 1 point on their driving license. No need to spend hundreds of Euros to get these reflective fabric gloves:” It just they have to be registered with the European certification” CE “. One can find in commerce from 40 Euros. “

Police in safety vest deal with the student died accident

Call friends and family on Facebook. His brother and his mother are in Spain.

At 4 in the night of December 31 Andrea Freccero, the student who died in Barcelona, ​​was a dl taxi rank near the Casino and not far from the disco Cat Walk. There’s a boy, in fact, a Genoese, Philip D., who saw him and also spoke. The young student would Albissola said it had lost contact with his group but he would not ask for any help. Philip D., since the appeal launched by the family of Andrea Freccero on Facebook, has been in touch with his brother and the two were also felt by phone. The description that made it leaves no doubt. At this time the family of the student, who this morning spoke with the Italian consulate in Barcelona, ​​are encountering the police in safety vest. One of the hypotheses is that the young, undocumented, may perhaps have been taken to hospital, even if you are having this kind of police at the time not found. You will soon also view the various security cameras installed in different paths points that night by the young.

 

The boy has vanished into thin air, in a night of celebration, between the Ramblas of Barcelona. Andrea, 19, student of Mazzini Vinci Savona, does not give news of himself from the evening of December 30 and yesterday afternoon, his family worried about this silence that with each passing hour it becomes more and more disturbing, have launched an appeal on Facebook with pictures of young, his data, the directions where he was last seen. A missing persons report was also presented to the Spanish police in reflective vest.

 

Today it is also made alive the owner of a restaurant in Barcelona. He said that some of his employees would see Andrea in the area of ​​a skating rink, the first of the year. “And ‘far – says Luca Freccero – he has disappeared from the area where my brother. I went there, I showed around some pictures of Andrew, but no one recognized him. “Since yesterday, in fact, the mother and brother of the students are in Barcelona, ​​understandably concerned because their fear is that the young man happened something serious.”This morning – explains Luca the phone – we were at the Italian consulate. Then we met the police who are following the story. They contacted several hospitals, but at the moment there were no admissions of young age of my brother and no papers. Also soon they will start to play back images recorded by security cameras located in various points that Andrea has traveled that night. ”

 

The concern of family members is that the nineteen year old who has health problems, has been lost and who knows where it went, or worse, happened to him something tragic. Andrea started on December 28th for Spain with a group of guys (around three hundred, from various parts of Italy) as part of a trip organized. The group (with Andrea there is another young Savona, Luca Marina) arrived in De Mar, a town on the Costa Brava, not far from Barcelona. On 30 December, in the travel plans, there was a visit to Barcelona. Andrea remained with the group (between 18 and 19) then, after a tour of the Ramblas, the evening was to have concluded in the Catwalk nightclub.

 

In the local, though, Andrea was not let in. The young, it seems that wearing a reflective fabric vest and a surf suit, the kind that come below the knee, clothing, however, considered inadequate by experts of the service order. The student of Mazzini remained well outside. Someone would see him walk towards the harbor area. Then the young man, who had no cell phone, they are untraceable. Tonight’s brother Luke and mother have left for Spain.

Police calls: Be careful on the road with safety vest

Be careful. The ruling from a few days the weather is the best testimony of variation autumn weather. Police in safety vest said that road conditions are variable and dangerous not only for managers but also pedestrians. The road surface is icy and often polluted and so slippery with the falling leaves. These conditions significantly lengthen braking distances and hinder safe driving.

 

Drivers should primarily be careful on bridges, overpasses, hills, close to forests and water bodies, because, despite the seemingly good surface roadway there may be icy.

 

Please also use caution in the vicinity of pedestrian crossings. Longer braking distance during the fast of dusk and late light morning is a greater risk to pedestrians. Police in reflective vest said there was a major accident. Audi fell under the wheels of 5-year-old girl. The incident took place at a pedestrian crossing.

 

We also remind pedestrians to not enter the roadway directly in front of an oncoming vehicle. It is the most common mistake. On average, every second case, which occurs through the fault of the pedestrian, this is caused.

 

Moreover, we appeal to cyclists, which are often at this time of year can be found on the way to taking care of their own safety not to forget about visibility. Vest with reflective tape, pendant, bracelet, or even a simple flashlight will make moving around the dimly lit road will be more visible to oncoming driver.

The importance of wearing a yellow vest

Now, before leaving college, children are required to take that piece of tissue that is “yellow, ugly reflective tape, that goes with anything, but that can save their lives.”

 

After the village road safety, organized mid-September to college in favor of grades 3 and 4, the Community of agglomeration, which made road safety among young college students one of its priority areas of intervention last Tuesday organized a day dedicated to safety in school transport, to this time, students from 6th and 4th.

 

Now, all college students have yellow vests offered by the Urban Community. Remember, these schoolboys were offered in September 2009, on the initiative of James Mayor by the Community of municipalities in the canton, reflective armbands. It was designed to be worn day and night by children taking school transport. Unfortunately, this device does not have the success it deserved.

 

More ugly but seeing

The yellow reflective vest, bigger, uglier, but more light, he will be more focused this time?

It is with these words that those responsible for school transport of Cali and the General Council came to defend its port Tuesday. Whether James, elected community in Cali and delegated to the school transport, and Patrice, executive transport to the General Council. “Since last Thursday, the day of distribution of these safety vests, college students do not leave the college without having necessarily covered,” said Christophe FLOREAN, principal of the college.

 

During the day, the 6th was supported by a driver-trainer, who detailed their safety rules and instructions in and near a car. The session ended with a vehicle evacuation exercise ‘out fast. “Young 4th, in turn, were supported by a service representative “transport” of the General Council of the Gironde for a theoretical presentation on safety rules, responsibilities, legal framework.

Yellow vest and the puzzle of the inputs and outputs of schools

How secure around schools at entry and exit hours of the students? In the presence of yellow reflective vest, the mayor added by the year-end CCTV cameras in more than a dozen schools. A measure which some families are infuriated by the lack of civility of motorists would have welcomed.

 

Another fifteen minutes before the end of the class, but there is already no free parking space Street Kortrijk. “It’s like this every day,” says Nathalie. Not only 15 h 30, but also the morning hours as well as supervising meals, “the worst remaining on Wednesday at 11: 30 pm” because the 240 children in safety vest of primary school de Lisle without exception leave the establishment.

 

In a one-way street, with parking spaces scattered on both sides, the inputs and outputs cause students to fail caps and irritations. Wearing the vest for the second year, Nathalie agrees: “Some do not hesitate to block access to individual garages, others settle double-parked with their hazard lights…”

 

“You can never park,” says Sophia (mother of a student of CP) who prefers to come off. “And every year, I think it’s getting worse,” Corinne abounds attending school for ten years. “It’s simple: they take school for a Drive!” And on the other side, in the nursery, the situation is no better. Street Dr is even closer, the school gates are located just before a bend and parking is even more restricted, some drivers do not hesitate to stop on the sidewalk, forcing pedestrians to take the floor.

Far from being an isolated case

 

To compel more civil, the mayor announced that nearly 14 schools would be equipped with CCTV cameras by the end of the year. Ultimately, the goal is also to power video-report offenders. If many parents in this neighborhood of Equality are in favor of this measure, judge for his part that “this is abuse.” “After dropping my daughter, I’m going straight to work: I am therefore obliged to take my car,” she pleads. “I think the solution is to take into account the flow of vehicles and would provide is a small parking lot with reflective tape signs.”

 

“There are places in the streets around” replied Sebastian, taking for example the streets of Warsaw,” you just take the trouble to walk 300 to 500 meters.  “An argument which few parents conductors are sensitive, especially the return of bad days … And the school is far from an isolated case.

The safety vest with reflective tape: a new safety for bikers

At a time when we are talking about the bad numbers of road safety and the protection of motorcyclists, they will be able to equip themselves with a safety vest with advanced technology.

 

As the government tries to sensitize bikers to safety, especially with its new standards imposing the yellow reflective vest and homologated gloves, the Hi-Airbag Connect makes its appearance. Bikers themselves admit that driving in agglomeration is becoming more and more difficult and dangerous, so any new protection will be welcome. Because they already have complete equipment, from helmets to boots to a jacket with back protector, the airbag is an additional weight protection to limit the trauma of the spine.

 

There are already airbags, but these were equipped with a strap that had to be hung on the handlebars and sensors in strategic places. But this concept could be activated in case of false movement, the solution was not ideal. In addition, if the biker forgot to hang his waistcoat, this one had no more interest. With the Hi-Airbag Connect, everything is simpler. It is worn as a classic waistcoat in reflective fabric but has a microprocessor that analyzes all the movements of the motorcycle. If a behavior no longer corresponds to the recorded parameters, the gas cartridge is triggered and the airbag inflates in 120 milliseconds.

Bicycle and safety reflective vest. A lovely birthday trip

Ten was the number of years celebrated yesterday by bicycle. Percent (or more), it was the number of cyclists, young and old who took the start of the urban ride that nicely celebrated this anniversary.

 

A guide wear yellow reflective vest, “floor leader” on the back in orange vest. It is a little over 14 hours and the first group for the ride of ten years of Treg Bicycle rushed from the place of the Patriots.

 

One hundred two-wheelers

They were six platoons of its kind to take the start yesterday afternoon, a total of more than a hundred motorbikes, members or not, a record for a family outing organized by the association. But in fact bikes, there were vehicles and all kinds rolling in the streets and edges, according to the different tours offered. Children we saw in trailers, others on their bikes connected by a drawbar than Mom or Dad, tandems, a unicycle and a recumbent bike. And even a dog, that, no, not pedaling but took advantage of the walk in a carriage at the rear. So it was an exit in good humor and without a hitch, which brought the participants at the end of the afternoon in the hall, where the animation wheel continued to turn. The kids had fun pedaling to generate energy or produce fruit juice. Enough to give a smile to the organizers pleased to welcome all fans of cycling in safety vest. “We made this event not only for us, it is open to all,” explained president of bicycle.

 

A new operation “Bike to Work”

In ten years, the association has advanced the cause of cycling, although much progress can still be made to him.

“The cycling is increasing for tourism and travel. People are also very sensitive to the health aspect, “said Gerard, reminiscent of the great success of the operation” Bike to work”, organized last spring. “We expected to have 150 people, we saw almost 500. Many people came to the bike with that. “And be pleased to know that the operation will be repeated in the month of May.

 

Routes and car parks

Bicycle continues to actively advocate for the development of cycle routes and facilities. “Take the connection between Lannion and Guirec. Where you go? There is the old railway line, which is 12 km. But it lacks a reflective tape markup; there are some intersections to be processed for safety, particularly in Petit Camp, and the roundabout at the entrance. We have to come to put around the table Community Department. “Efforts are also underway to develop a secure covered car parking near the train station and other near bus stops, the head of the lines.”The public are increasingly sensitive. Things have changed in ten years. But we have going at top speed, there is an ambition. “In short, do not necessarily play slow race, as one of the activities offered yesterday afternoon.

Safety vest: attention to road accidents

The last weekend of October is already here and its transition to winter time too. Surely we gain an hour of sleep though a spate of road accidents was recorded, because it can’t be seen clearly without safety vest in dimly light.

In the night from Saturday to Sunday at 3 am it will be 2 hours. The day will dawn sooner but the blues Sunday night will come a little earlier than usual with the dusk to 17 pm 30 …

 

Yet an additional hour of sleep clearly not enough to recover from this time change since a study of the Public Security Directorate has been an increase in the number of road accidents the following week.

 

The peak accident rate and mortality was noted in 8 slices / 10h and 17h / 21h or at peak hours. More people on the roads and a reduced visibility in the dark that accentuates are the main causes. Pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, everyone would be concerned. A reflective vest can enhance visibility and make you safer effect with more effective.

 

Fatigue may also be a cause of this accident rate increased, since chronobiologists noted that this time change would be more harmful to the body than the time difference when traveling. Sleep, diet and mood would change the point of seeing a 5% increase in myocardial week after the transition to winter time.

 

To reduce these risks, we should anticipate by lying earlier a few days before, by drinking plenty of water, enjoy the sunshine, make cure magnesium and vitamins.

 

Road Safety recommends “choose bright clothing or better still with retro reflective tapes.” It is strongly recommended that cyclists wear a reflective safety vest even if it is not required (except when driving outside urban areas at night or in low visibility day).

 

Motorists should be vigilant, reduce speed and “beware of” black holes “, these passages from a lighted area to a darker area where a pedestrian may arise, and finally to deviate from the sidewalks as much as possible.”