Can’t Cross A Virtual Wall - Yanko Design
The Virtual Wall provides a barrier fabricated upward of plasma light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation beams depicting pedestrians doing what they do all-time and whatever machine that crosses that bulwark suffers the consequences. Okay so maybe those lasers aren't powerful enough to practise whatever harm but the effect is plenty to make drivers and pedestrians alike follow crosswalk rules to the tee.
Designer: Hanyoung Lee
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Source: https://www.yankodesign.com/2008/04/21/cant-cross-a-virtual-wall/
This makes me want to drive through it… not exactly the result that a finish light should evoke.
Pedestrian impacts likewise cause unnecessary paint damage and may mayhap void sure manufacturer warranties and/or service agreements.
This would be not bad until an emergency services vehicle such as an ambulance crashes considering the driver's vision was dumb.
Ambulances give off some sort of radio signal which can turn red lights into dark-green lights; why shouldn't this bespeak be able to plow off the wall also?
This is not true, I accept friends in the strength that have verified how much of a myth this really is.
I'k not sure where you lot alive, but I only saw a one hour long testify on Discovery channel that talks well-nigh the fire engines in southern California that do use a signal to turn lights a cake alee of them… Maybe not for cop cars, only I've seen it for buses also…
Depends on the government agency. Some have the signal pre-emption system and some do not. If the vehicle does not have a transmitter or the signal does non have a receiver, so pre-emption. They as well have to be the same manufacturer to work (at least with the new ones with security so the devices sold on the cyberspace won't piece of work).
your wrong its chosen preempt and information technology set the traffic signals to exist dark-green in the direction of travel for rescue vech.
information technology's a fine idea….. but how are they program on doing that? Using light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation today is not possible to brandish such detail or image appearing in mid air.
And then my question is…. why post such a faulty dream hope idea when it'south not possible?
With an attitude similar yours designers still would think nearly realizing the wheel…
They invented the wheel, considering they didn't waste time with useless things.
thats a fantastic thought, you have no sense of inventiveness or what and so ever.
They invented the bicycle considering they need information technology!
With an attitude like this designer, we would all be designing concept cars with wings earlier even inventing the wheel.
and would that be so bad? I like the thought of jumping development
Well that holographic technology wont work because information technology needs to be in a glass prisim, and a road won't be very usable with a giant glass prisim in the center of it! No but seriously, some of these designers demand to create designs that pay attention to reality, like for example, whats a plasma laser? The whole concept revolves effectually it only goose egg of the sort exists and the designer makes no attempt to explicate what it is or what information technology does.
It is possible today. I have seen it in a doorway. Simply it needs steam or fog for the laser to be visible on a bright 24-hour interval. don't be and so negative. we need to progress, and traffic lights are so former. Call back well-nigh it…A rock yet works fine every bit a hammer, but it didn't stop somebody from inventing a new hammer. (P.S. and the hammer turned into a drill)
It's merely a concept homo, it doesn't have to come up true in the slightest. If all of the designers had the same thought process that you do, at that place would be virtually null on this website.
Lighten up.
Faulty Dream Promise ideas is a step that leads to Real Good Working ideas sometimes. Have you e'er washed whatever concept designs?
Posting is sharing and whatsoever idea no thing how faulty or dreamy it is can inspire other designers to create other great products.
Take your head out homo.
Oh OH ohhh! got a improve idea since those don't actually end you from striking anyone…. Let the computer drive the car for you. Duh.
Don't need behemothic red people roaming all over the places. -_-;
(posting from the year 2028)
Yes, I hate these light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation walls that clog our every plough. It was ok in the 2010's, when they were but used in dumbo urban areas. Just, so the city of Houston fabricated that deal with GoogleSoft to outsource their infrastructure development for a slice of advertising royalties. The new "adlights" spread everywhere as cities, towns, and truck stops tried to get in on the action.
If but we could simplify the design a bit. Focus the signal into a smaller visual footprint, maybe with different colors for whether you should yield, finish, or go. Information technology would exist cheaper, more reliable, and easier to maintain. And no more than ads.
I hate you, GoogleSoft.
I like this idea. A lot.
But I concur with the kickoff comment too: people (ME!) would be tempted just to drive through information technology. I would enhance it a bit: put in motion sensors too then that if the auto crashes into the paradigm, some huge speakers would bellow out screams and cries of "KENNY! OH MY GOD – You lot KILLED KENNY!" and we would accept visuals of big red people flying in different directions.
That'd learn them.
surely innovative. Impressive
I love the idea, simply I think sure cars need to get special exclusion, such as ambulance, law car …
This is 'blueprint'? You come upward with something impossible with electric current technology, ignore the need to create technology to make it possible, photoshop a picture of it, then claim you 'designed' it?
I assumed that the idea of designing such technology involved creating a viable blueprint for the hardware and programming necessary to implement the idea. I was really looking forward to an explanation if how these 'plasma lasers' were going to make images hover in midair in broad daylight.
But if that'due south not the case, I tin can encounter a career for myself designing flying saucers, killer robots, and rocket pants. It should exist easy now that I don't have to worry about such important things as how or why.
Amen!
Eric K:
This is the kind of inventing that got us into modern civilization. Forwards thinking, thinking outside the box. If nobody bothered to dream upwards anything new simply because it wasn't possible yet, we'd all even so be barbarians living in caves banging on rocks, instead of barbarians living in wooden houses banging on keyboards. Everything you have, everything you see, is possible because someone like Mr. Lee thought outside the bounds of the mundane and chose to wait to the future. DaVinci invented hundreds of things that couldn't be built in his lifetime, only information technology never stopped him. Y'all should thank people like them instead of belittling them.
Furthermore, the invention as pictured is just a CONCEPT. While it may never exist produced as such, a concept frequently opens discussion and inquiry in the directions needed to devise other useful things.
This does not under whatsoever circumstances fall under the catorgory of "inventing". Inventing implies something that HAS been built or IS POSSIBLE to build or MIGHT BE POSSIBLE TO BUILD WITH SOME Evolution. You might as well "deisgn" a personal teleportation arrangement to make cars obsolete and solve the problem that mode.
contrast with someone similar Johnny Chung Lee ( his videos are at http://www.youtube.com/user/jcl5m ). He has "thought outside the box" with such common things as the Wii controller or some fibre-optice cable and elementary light sensors, and created stunning applications from them. That is innovation of the highest order. Merely letting your imagination run riot is non design, or invention.
Da Vinci produced concepts for things that could not nevertheless be built, and the problems were obvious – "Tin can't spin this fast enough at this fourth dimension" or "we can't brand this material potent enough at this fourth dimension" – because Da Vinci'due south work was underpinned by a real knowledge of how the globe works. Hanyoung Lee'due south blueprint does not take applied issues considering it is not a practical solution. For a start, what on world is a "plasma laser axle" in this context? He went to the trouble of beingness that specific…
This isn't design, it'south sci-fi fiction. And _BAD_ sci-fi at that – about fiction these days tries not to make such basic errors.
"Frymaster"…
Given the amount of steam bravado out of your ass – the opacity volition be sufficient plenty for the lasers to be visible. Perchance you can reside on the road so that this visionaries concept tin can be fully realized.
Stick with what you know and best wishes with starting your camp fires by banging rocks together.
JR
We're coming out with the technology to build this right now. Bank check out the holocube on this site. Apparently this is possible.
Another question:
If y'all have lasers powerful enough to exist seen in daytime, they're certainly not going to be eye-safe. How do you lot create this impossible technology in such a way equally to be eye-safe?
You lot just need to clap a bunch of chalk board erasers around the light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.
A variant a the pattern could be to prove the wall in a height of 4 or five meters.
This thought wouldn't brand it necessary to make the lasers eye-safe and besides could show other signs like arrows / stop- or other signs.
Ok this exists already – but without light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.
Wow… a lot of you lot people are incredibly ignorant and close minded. as wSer states, stick to things you actually know about, rather than just guessing because you've never personally seen the technology yourself.
In that location are situations that forestall inventors from divulging too much public data for fear of contest and other scientists from stealing the ideas.
If you do some websearching yous can discover thinks like:
High german Patent (2006) on "high color allegiance can be projected onto video screen holograms fifty-fifty in a daylight surround. " http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6982817-description.html
Holography has been effectually since 1947, however, it's only until now, volumetric displays of such applied science are becoming a reality, although still by and large bachelor to academics and the military (this is why the lay person hasn't been educated on this technology).
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I do agree, the impracticality of this will be a gene in information technology'south application. I didn't realize pedestrians were such a problem in urban areas, I've been living in NY for years and take not been struck by a car… as long equally you're paying attention, you should be find and the practical awarding of this seems an expense a city planner tin can avoid at this time.
most cars have tinted windows that could block out a fleck of the light and it doesn't beam the lasers directly at drivers or pedestrians
most cars accept tinted windows that could block out a bit of the light and information technology doesn't axle the lasers directly at drivers or pedestrians
Looks cool but wildly impractical even beyond the technological hurdles of creating a wall of light in thin air.
– Correct hand turns on red are legal… then y'all could take trouble seeing pedestrians. Through whatever kind of 'wall'.
– How practice we have plasma walls but not cars that can manage to not hit a pedestrian? If I take plasma fences I expect automated cars or at to the lowest degree some sort of cool down town pod railroad train system.
i think ppl volition spoil it in my country XD
the cost non low right !
It's impossible, and can't possibly work (without photoshop). Other than that, it'south quite overnice
Where'southward the problem…? You lot simply slide upward a big windowpane out of the ground and use it as a projection surface. If the glass is thick enough it actually protects the pedestrians backside it.
Or nosotros could finally get automated traffic/roadways going after the last 60 years of speculation and development, and do away with hopelessly bad drivers and traffic lights (or walls) altogether.
All the same impractical the pattern is, if by and large technical, its notwithstanding a positive reinterpretation of an every twenty-four hour period fixture and thats what matters. One things leads to another and all ends are unknown.
Eric M, you should have just said yous didn't concur with the use of the give-and-take designer in this case and left it at that. Otherwise you sound like you believe every rough concept out there needs to be backed up by a million dollar development grant or fleshed out by i person who's a ' conceptual designer' just also a competent professional in engineering (of several kinds in this case), physics, city planning, and psychology. Thats non the way information technology works.
There'south two things wrong with this "design":
1. It is not physically possible.
two. It's non his encarmine Idea, conspicuously the human being but read Transmetropolitan and copied the (wholly fictional) traffic lights of the future.
actually a better merely similar technology was already made in nihon and it could project in 3D the only problem now is how to project information technology at a larger scale and the cost
actually a ameliorate merely similar technology was already made in nihon and it could project in 3D the only problem now is how to project information technology at a larger scale and the toll
How about cross it and your license plate gets a photo.
It is a wonderful idea, simply laser is well established hazardous for anyone eye, if utilize at a powerful level.
I suggest using LED light beam might be safer than laser. The low-cal intensity of LED is much less and less hazard of blindness, peculiarly if children is playing with the beam.
Ane trouble with this idea that it prone to abuse by children or other punks. Unproblematic tape cover it upwards and cease to works correctly.
It may be meliorate to use over head organisation rather than side street bars or emitted from the road surface, and so information technology out of reach.
Proficient luck, I believe this is very good ides, far improve than traffic light system.
R.
Fake pictures!
Uhhmmmmm… I think both people and motorcar driver will exist tempted to go trough it , crashing together!!
super!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There's a word for people similar Eric K: TROLL. Even if the idea lacks merit or viability, being an idea-bashing bully doesn't change the idea. Doing and so only proves y'all're a troll, Eric 1000.
Instead of bashing the idea, effort offering helpful suggestions or alternatives.
Those who offering constructive criticism of others advance social club.
Those who offer merely abuse, destroy it.
Below is a non-troll constructive criticism:
The plasma/laser grid offers only a signal mechanism, consumes power continuously while lit, and cannot prevent people from driving right through. While admittedly not as "flashy" or "high-tech" in appearance, mechanical engineering science should not exist discarded. Endeavor using a uncomplicated mechanical system that raises and lowers steel reinforced concrete barricades. The barricades would too assist end people from running ruddy-lights, too. While this could preclude "correct turn on red" for those places where it is legal, the increment in public safety would be well worth the 15-40 second await for pedestrians to cross.
Be helpful, or shut the fuck up.
the energy required to lower concrete beams is less than that required of the lasers?
and if a drunk commuter slams into the barricade?
and if a drunkard driver slams into the barricade?
OK, then the thought, Equally IT STANDS, is physically incommunicable. The question is- should I (or anyone else) spend time coming up with an alternative?
That depends on the value you put on time, I suppose.
For example, I'd propose a serial of micro-jets, spraying h2o UP and beingness swept by stroboscopic lights. Such a barrier is visible, yet penetrable past emergency vehicles- at the risk of getting moisture.
But out of curiosity, how large a trouble is this anyway?
The complete inability to implement this "design" still – how many pedestrians are actually hit by drivers, at a crossing, when there's a red light?
And of those traffic collisions that practise occur, how many would accept reasonably been prevented by the proposed design?
(For example, in cases of DUI or speeding vehicles, would such a system accept been any more than constructive than standard traffic lights?)
I oasis't researched these figures myself, which is why I'grand asking – hey, maybe nosotros demand to take measures against the rising tide of motorists who are non capable of both checking traffic lights and not running over pedestrians.
Simply until I see such prove, I know I wouldn't want to implement this, even if it were actually physically possible to do and then.
I wish we had such virtual bariers in our human relations
can anybody make that besides…
what happens when a big truck stops next to one of the projector poles and blocks the beam? Traffic anarchy.
Impressive, just not possible. Traffic lights are managed by computers in large cities already. Simply if it would be cheaper to implement "Traffic Wall"…
What's the power consumption required to make a plasma wall? As an electric engineer I'd judge 100-10,000x a walk signal.
Cool idea, just not very "green", and probably very hard to see in bright sun.
An old-fashioned railroad swing-arm gate would be cheaper, lower-power, and at to the lowest degree equally effective, I'd think.
Better salvage some lives then some energy men.
Improve save some lives then fourth dimension men. No driving should exist allowed.
(just following your logic, or the lack of it)
Inquiry semi-perpetual free energy on the web. Shortly, energy consumption will be obsolete
So tin motorists see the "pedestrians" BEFORE they make it at the crosswalk?
Does the light show only actuate when people are entering it? Or is it on all the time?
I remember it would be most constructive if it merely activated when pedestrians are actually approaching and/or using the crosswalk, rather than being active all the fourth dimension. If it'south on all the time, motorists might go desensitized to its presence.
Excellent IDEA, though, I recall.
I'g amazed at the number of people who say "Keep an open listen" when discussing something that clearly will not work.
Anyone can think "exterior the box". But doing so is not useful unless yous tin can tie your dreams to some sort of reality.
A throw-away mention of Keio University's plasma laser display device does non brand this idea possible. That technology does not work in this manner, and is not at all safe to deploy where someone might accidentally walk into the beams.
Further, the people backside the plasma laser brandish device are true inventors, they idea outside the box, and THEN FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE THEIR Thought A REALITY. Simply, coming upward with crazy ideas, while important, is the like shooting fish in a barrel part. Any six twelvemonth former tin do that.
On the other manus, If this technology existed, then information technology would be in apply EVERYWHERE. Not just street crossings.
You wouldn't be able to walk down the street without seeing a zillion floating laser ads It's non as though no i has invented the power to project images in mid-air considering they couldn't think of a use for information technology.
Information technology is possible today. I accept seen it in a doorway. Only it needs steam or fog for the light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation to exist visible on a bright day. we demand to progress, and traffic lights are and then one-time. Remember about it…A rock still works fine every bit a hammer, but information technology didn't finish somebody from inventing a new hammer. (P.South. and the hammer turned into a drill) But i do hold with some people. I DON'T want to run into a trillion ads popping upward in fornt of me while i sit at a red lite.
equally initially appealing this thought information technology seems, its more distracting that helpful. Say, for example, someone tin can't avoid hitting a ruby-red for whatever reason. The barrier obstructs the view and they can't gauge where the pedestrians actually are. as much as rules are made to exist followed, these kinds of mechanisms have to have some margin of safety for those who break them. and they will break them. regardless two layers (one for each side of the intersection) is going to reduce visibility to nothing and its going to irritate the pedestrians more than annihilation, especially if its that alpine. Might be a ameliorate idea to put a mechanism in the car than on the road.
This is a nice idea and I think can be implemented in many countries. Though the first comment "…I'd like to get through it" cannot be hands done every bit when you will see this you lot'll naturally terminate.
good idea and should be implemented
Does it work on a clear sunny day?
Funny… I had this thought a looooong time ago…. a virtual barrier that would appear at pedestrian cross walks. I didn't anticipate the damaging beams tho… :p
Impressive accolade list but do you ever try to build some simple model?
Old school gay would be tested idea by light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation pointer fir example
Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation beam are virtually invisible you can see only objects illuminated by the beam
(fog, smoke male laser beam visible)
3D screens you run across in youtube utilise light dispersing projection media (usually transparent foil) and piece of work in twilight
so the lite wall is not virtual
Second, adventitious affect of light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation axle into pedestrian centre may cause sight injury (very serious)
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It is possible today. I have seen information technology in a doorway. Simply it needs steam or fog for the light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation to be visible on a bright day. we need to progress, and traffic lights are so old. Retrieve virtually it…A rock still works fine equally a hammer, but information technology didn't finish somebody from inventing a new hammer. (P.S. and the hammer turned into a drill) But i practice agree with some people. I DON'T want to see a trillion ads popping upwards in fornt of me while i sit at a red calorie-free.
What the heck, you can't really cross with that kind of wall blocking..
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And as the researchers working on that technology make clear, "It is dangerous".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfVS-npfVuY
Non to mention how expensive such a system would exist to install, operate, and maintain.
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