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by ars 4725 days ago
Try thinking more than one step at a time.

What will be the very next thing that happens if you actually succeed in doing this?

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It would be made illegal immediately due to the potential for abuse.
Similar to how the emergency red-light-to-green traffic signal preemption devices were summarily banned in a lot of places after people figured out the very simple mechanism they use.

http://www.10news.com/news/driver-cited-for-using-traffic-li...

Hiding, as always, the original problem (cars not detecting bikes) would be unaddressed while a fake problem (people causing accidents) gets people's attentions via the msm.

Don't do this.

Cars would stop hitting bikes?
No, cars would disable this device because it is causing false positives.

And now a useful safety feature is no longer available.