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Path Defender! (patented)
Against the worst on a bike:
car/motorcycle crash

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These crashes always mean serious injuries for the biker
They represent 70% of all motorcycle accidents in many countries
They involve any motorcycle:
- The car driver didn't see the motorcycle
Generally,
- They occur at moderate speeds
- The biker is not responsible for the accident

Every year in France
- More than 800 bikers are killed on the road
- 15,000 are injured, 3,000 seriously

Few people are aware of this danger, described by statistics in many countries. May be because there was no solution to it up to now.

For your safety, Go Optics! present the Path Defender, Gold award at the French Lépine innovation exhibition, a light signaling device aimed in this first version to Harley-Davidson motorcycles featuring "bullet" turn signals (models since 2001). Path Defender is an accessory sold as a kit.

Path Defender™ from Go Optics! reduces the danger in the
                - Most dangerous situations: collision risk with a car
                - And the most frequent situations: 70% of bike accidents are caused by collisions with another vehicle

Install Path Defender on your Harley Davidson:
  • No bike modification!
  • Totally reversible installation!
  • Adapts automatically to your driving style!
  • Visible from more than 200 yards!
  • Automatically dimmed light intensity at night to avoid glare!
Path Defender manages potentially dangerous situations in three different ways:
   1. - Improves your bike conspicuity
   2. - 4-fold perception of your bike distance
   3. - Supplemental information for the other drivers thanks to an intuitive indication of your:
- speed,
- accelerations and slowing down,
- Direction changes

Except for those hazardous situations, Path Defender improves the bikers' safety at all times:
- Visual discrimination of motorbikes thanks to cooler a light than car headlights
- Faster detection of your bike, even during other vehicle drivers attention drops (often preceding most traffic accidents)

Go Optics! have also been kind to the biker's budget and bike:

- Path Defender does not modify your bike, its installation is totally reversible

- All Path Defender advantages for 220 US$ (outside EU)
This model is designed for the "bullet" Harley-Davidson turn indicators
Available from end of March 2006
Versions for other Harley-Davidson models and bike makes are in preparation.

Important : This model is currently not D.O.T. approved.
Links to a few documents about motorcycle safety:
  • The Think! campaign from the British Department of Transportation (in English, check the video on this page!)
  • The Hurt report conclusions (in English, USA)
  • NHTSA bike accident survey (in English, USA). Note: collisions related accidents show a comparatively low ratio (54% in 1999 on page 16, table17 on page 27), because only less than half of the victims were wearing a helmet.
  • An article about bikes lacking conspicuityin AutoRevue (MATMUT insurance company), in French
  • Survey from the Direction Départementale de l'Équipement du Gard (French area) on motorcycles accidents, in French

Go Optics!

69 rue Jules Ferry Phone  +33 (0)490 631 604
84200 Carpentras - France E-mail : go-optics@tele2.fr
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