# Blaze Laserlights

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2017-01-15

bicycle, bicycle-light, biking, blaze, cities, cycling, light, lighting, london, mobility, new-york, new-york-city, transport, transportation, uncategorized, urban-mobility, urbanism

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This is a great idea:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/78dbbc8078c20751658ee939a0ed5799.jpg)

It is a bicycle light – by a London-based company called [Blaze](https://blaze.cc/laserlight/) – that forward projects a bicycle symbol 6m in front of you as you ride. It also has a really bright white light.

They will be (or have been) installed on London’s entire bike-share fleet and they are currently being piloted in New York City. [Here](https://vimeo.com/198085916) is a video of it in action.

One of the things I always watch for when I’m cycling is being in a car’s blindspot. Signalling seems to be a dying art, so you never know when someone might turn into you. If this light is able to project in front of the car and signal to the driver that a cyclist is nearby, then I could see this being a big safety improvement. Of course, this is just one scenario where a light like this might be helpful.

Have any of you tried it?

_Image:_ [_Blaze_](https://blaze.cc/laserlight/)

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/blaze-laserlights)*