Thursday Video - The Bike Butterfly

Michael Wallis, inventor of the Bike Butterfly

This week's video shows is about the bike butterfly. It's a short video, just over a minute long. For most of it, inventor Michael Wallis talks about his creation and the motivation behind it. Wallis commutes to work by bicycle everyday, and reports that pedestrians are a bigger problem than motorists. When deployed, the bike butterfly makes him more visible and slows him down. They give an internet address at the end, but the bikebutterfly.com website is no longer functioning.