Living through different times

[Vapin' Joe]

I can understand driverless cars, despite the odd inevitable failure once the system is perfected eliminating the possibility of driver error would drastically reduce road accidents. But electronic brakes on a bike have no advantage at all over cable or hydraulic systems. They would still need to be applied manually and make no improvement at all to a bikes ability to stop or the speed at which they can be applied. All they do is add a dangerous complication to replace something that already works as it should.

So this garden shed project is very clever and interesting, but completely dead in the water as a commercial concept.

 

[classic33]

How about someone else operating your brakes.

https://tomcatuk.org/product/occupational-and-lifestyle-aids/smart-brake-system/

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

How about someone else operating your brakes.

https://tomcatuk.org/product/occupational-and-lifestyle-aids/smart-brake-system/

Couples on tandems could outsource the brakes to their wife on the back

which reminds me
why does the woman of a standard couple always ride on the back
she is normally shorter so can;t easily see forward over him - I have seen this quite a few times

 

[Shearwater Missile]

Wireless brakes

I must have them - when are they out ?

At the same time as cordless braces.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Just to play devil's advocate. There's no backup for a snapped cable either.

A spare cable?

 

[silva]

Couples on tandems could outsource the brakes to their wife on the back

which reminds me
why does the woman of a standard couple always ride on the back
she is normally shorter so can;t easily see forward over him - I have seen this quite a few times

Couple on 2 bikes does that too.
2 couples together, 2 men ride ahead, 2 women follow.
.
In army drills they also put the tallest men at the front and the shortest at the back.

It's to avoid Trouble:

 

[C R]

A spare cable?

So you can also carry a spare battery.