First bikebell against noise-canceling headphones

4ggr0

previous post about this from 8 days ago with over 600 points and comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687248

taspeotis

It’s actually the second one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687248

terabytest

Are they selling this anywhere or is it just a marketing gimmick?

Toutouxc

Interesting idea but I don’t like this: > More pedestrians than ever use ANC headphones. > Car horns get through, but bike bells get blocked. Leading to a rise in cyclist / pedestrian collisions. Either you’re talking about using the bell to avoid an imminent collision, like you would use the horn in a car, which is both kind of hard to do (ring a bell while braking hard) and doesn’t fit the “5 seconds” timeframe. Or you’re talking about just announcing your presence to the headphone user, which doesn’t give you the right to endanger them in any way, so if they don’t hear you and you crash into them, it’s almost entirely your fault for not slowing down and/or making a wider circle around them. If ANC headphones are leading to more collisions, it’s mostly an infrastructure problem and a people problem, not a headphones problem.