(Well, except for the part about making the stopping car look like it was photographed in much lower lighting than the rest of the picture and has the back end jacked up two extra feet, but that’s just bad photo manipulation, not a fault in the idea the image is trying to get across.)

Of course, laser-light shows actually emit light from multiple angles in three dimensions to accomplish their visual effects, and I don’t see any way it could be made to work in a plane from a linear emitter as depicted. And the price would be a bit steep for putting them on every street corner in any case. But you know, those are details ;-)

Good luck with that!

With regards to these things, precision optical alignment and traffic vibration are not a happy mix. I also note that they seem to think it a good idea to throw this up on a yellow light- I would have thought that something like that suddenly appearing in front of you with no warning would be more likely to cause more accidents than less.

Of course, visibility would be piss-poor… you’d be better off using something much simpler like a couple of red lights to tell drivers to stop, along with a common sense rule like “don’t drive through pedestrians”.

Kudos to anyone who knows what that actually means. ;)

I also see a lot of “parallels” between this and the clipping barriers in recent Need for Speed games. I think its time I release my innovative design for a transdimensional gateway projector.