Chilean Startup BikeLite Makes Cities Safer for Bicyclists Around the World
(WorldNews Germany)

On November 5, 2016, Paulina Barria lost her best friend. That evening, avid bicyclist Ivonne Ramirez rode her bike through the streets of Santiago, Chile. While approaching an intersection, a bus hit the 28-year-old and Rameriz lost her life. After learning what happened to Ramirez, Barria decided to create an application that could protect cyclists from hazardous road conditions. `When I heard that Ivonne died, I put all my passion and grief into something positive,` she says. Barria is an architect by training but had always been interested in how technology could help people, and saw this as an opportunity to make a difference. Barria founded BikeLite, a provider of `urban mobility...