Cycling jacket that detects motion

[GuitarRiderGrrl]

Sounds great, Cyn! Let me know when you have it worked out, okay? I'll take a couple of those.

Yeah, I'm thinking this could save lives, and as more and more people dump their stinky car bubbles, the market should expand.
I did a quick patent search, and it looks like its in the clear, but, that was only a quick search. I found several mfgr's for accelerometers - the thing is that this doesn't require fancy linear output, or high accuracy - If it sensed a deceleration of say 1-2 G or more and then switched, that would be as accurate as it needs to be!! Nothing at all fancy - I want to use solid state so that its rugged. ~ If I come up with something, I could get the gals who might be interested to be "beta testers" on T.E. to help test them out with me. I have no idea yet what it would cost, but I don't think a whole lot.

Does the idea of using bi-color (amber that turns to red, when decelerating and stopping) LED's sound like it would alert drivers that the cyclist is stopping??

My wheels are definitely turning,
BTW, I didn't do the preliminary patent search cause I'm a money grubber, but rather to keep my fanny out of the jaws of the attorney's if it were to turn out to be a viable concept. ~ Wouldn't it be cool if we each put our expertise into projects that could make a difference? .....And maybe show the rest of the world, that even though their is a pack of loonies, brigands, thieves and maroons in Washington D.C., that Americans still have it (Particularly gals!)

Cyn