Blind bikes risking lives!
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Your Thakurgaon correspondent Rubayat's report and the real life photograph published in your pages says it all! With no front or rear lights, plying in the dark is quite rightly a disaster in the making! This needs to be overcome; the sooner the better. What is needed is for the vehicles to have two low-powered lights with good reflectors fitted on two sides at the top in the front, and two or three highly polished reflectors on the mid level at the back of these battery operated bikes. The back reflectors (without any bulbs) will reflect back the head lights of the vehicle that is coming behind the easy bike, and identify it. This can be a viable option, with little load on the battery, for safely driving in the dark. This option should be tried out immediately. This provision will greatly increase the safety of these vehicles, particularly at night. I believe this may become an effective solution for the problem. It needs to be given wide publicity to create awareness among the users of easy bike.
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