Research Articles
Bike Horn User Interfaces: Taps, Presses, and Toggles
- Safety
- December 1, 2025
- 11 mins
How modern bike horns use taps, presses, and directional gestures to give riders both polite bells and emergency car-level warnings.
read-more →Laser Bike Lights: From Virtual Lanes to Projected Bike Symbols
- Product Reviews
- December 1, 2025
- 10 mins
A deep dive into the history of bicycle laser lights, from early ‘virtual lane’ concepts to today’s projection lights, with a look at which products are still on the market and which have disappeared.
read-more →How Car-Dependent Grocery Trips Turn Into Food Waste
- Health & Environment
- December 1, 2025
- 13 mins
How car-based supermarket runs encourage overbuying and food waste in the U.S—and how bikeable, dense neighborhoods flip the script.
read-more →Cycling and Mental Health: How Two Wheels Protect Your Mind
- Safety
- December 1, 2025
- 14 mins
How everyday cycling reduces depression, anxiety, and stress—and how small safety upgrades like lights and loud horns help more people ride.
read-more →Cycling for Physical Health: Turning Everyday Trips into Exercise
How everyday cycling improves heart, metabolic, and musculoskeletal health—and how simple safety upgrades like lights and car-horn-loud bicycle horns make it easier to ride consistently.
read-more →Hövding Airbag Bike Helmets: Rise, Fall, and What Comes Next
- Product Reviews
- December 1, 2025
- 12 mins
A deep dive into Hövding’s airbag ‘invisible helmet’ for cyclists: how it works, what safety testing found, why it was pulled from the market, and how the brand is being revived.
read-more →Sex Differences in Driver Risk and Behavior
- Safety
- December 1, 2025
- 9 mins
What the evidence actually shows about male and female drivers: exposure, risk-taking, crash rates, injury vulnerability, and how much of the gap is culture versus biology.
read-more →Why Women in the US Don't Bike as Much as Men
- Infrastructure Policy Safety
- December 1, 2025
- 10 mins
In Utrecht, women ride bikes as much as, or more than men. But in Chicago, men dominate the bike lanes. The difference isn’t culture or biology; it’s how the streets are built.
read-more →Big Cars, Small Freedom
- Safety
- November 30, 2025
- 16 mins
How oversized SUVs and pickup trucks are sabotaging walkable cities, safety, and climate — and why we need to deflate the big-car arms race.
read-more →Cycling for Environmental Health: Air Quality, Noise, and Population-Level Benefits
- Safety
- November 30, 2025
- 12 mins
How shifting everyday trips from cars to bikes cuts air pollution, reduces harmful noise, and delivers outsized population-level health benefits.
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