About us
The Roadsafe Company was established to provide innovative and environmentally friendly products to create safer solutions to the current network of roads and highways.
Our products and how we intend to use them based on our own research and trials are here to help prevent accidents, road crashes and save lives in the ever busy and dangeorus road environments which we use everyday.
Our specialty are solar road markers. We have searched the world around for all solar road markers and developed our own.
Solar markers on our roof top going through testing
Our products use the latest in Solar and LED technology, are CE Approved and environmentally friendly.
Switching to Solar powered products has three major benefits:
- powering these products for free
- saving on electricity costs
- cutting down on greenhouse gases.
The RoadSafe Company is a supporter of Camp Quality, Police Citizens Youth Club, Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife, Wombat Rise Sanctuary and Native Animal Network. 5% of revenue is donated ever year to a variety of charity organisations and participate in donating their time to help out with fund raising events.
The Roadsafe Company have served:
- Blacktown Council - see Video - Blackspot bend, Tattersal Rd, Kings Park
- Penrith City Council
- Gosford Council
- Tweed Shire Council
- Cairns City Council
- NSW Police Local Area Commands
- Australian Defence Force
- Goulburn Correctional Centre
- Gosford Council
- Waverly council - see trial installation
Overseas:
- Government of Dubai RTA Vägverket
- Swedish Road Administration, Sweden
The team
David Amar
The Roadsafe Company was founded by David Amar in 2005. David has an extensive background in electronics and vehicles. He is a certified sound engineer and aircraft engineer with a military background.
Peter Hardi
Peter Hardi, founder and director of Mirage Entertainment, was established over 10 years ago producing and directing short films, commercials, music videos and theatre productions. Peter also has a background in quality management for aged care facilities. Mirage Special Operations imports, develops, evaluates, several unique vehicles such as hovercraft, motorbikes and bicycles for tactical and rescue use as well as unique equipment for specialised areas of law enforcement which are not on this site.
Peter is also a supporter and active committee member of several native wildlife and conservation foundations such as The Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife and Wildlife Rescue groups such as WIRES and the Native Animal Network Association. He has a license and a collection of native wildlife in his backyard.
Both David and Peter are enthusiasts and users of motor vehicles, motorcycles and bicycles. They have an understanding for the associated risks and dangers to the users of roads, both as drivers and pedestrians.
Peter and David were involved in developing and trialing a tactical hovercraft protoype which is being evaluated by the ADF.
Together with technology, creative minds, and a passion for road safety, we hope that our products will help make Australia safer both on the road and waterways.
Lengths we have gone to prove our ideas work
In order to trial the effectiveness of road markers at pedestrian refuges or a sharp corner. We had to make sure that the environment we were in was free from any distractions to the motorists - as any person or vehicle creates a distraction or might affect the driving behaviour of motorists.
Once we temporarily installed the road markers in position. We got Camoflauge Sniper outfits from our army contacts. We drove our vehicles out of the area, out of sight. Got our radar gun, infrared thermal imaging video camera and blended in with the natural bush surrounding the roadway and began our trial. We did this is rain, hail and shine. With and without the markers. We were able to clearly see drivers eye movements and reaction to the markers using the infrared camera. And our ideas proved correct.
Before the installtion of solar road markers onto a designated section of road. We observe the area several times before at different times of the evening, taking note of speed, volume of traffic, frequency of P platers,how many vehicles crossed the centre line and other factors.
After the installation, approx one - two weeks, once local traffic has got used to the new device on their common road (the first few times a motorists would see the device, the level of curiosity might cause them to slow down) we continue with the same observations. Again, we make sure motorists can not see us on the road as this would cause a distraction and change driver behavior and would not allow for a 'true' or 'accurate' observation.
Military Rd, Dover Heights
