Riderless Bike

[presta]

View: https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1796128167650034142

 

[Cycleops]

Will it be joining Cycle Chat?

 

[AndyRM]

That's very cool!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Doesn’t look quite right, but brilliant if it’s real. It’s been spoofed by Google before.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Waaay back in the mists of time, before autonomous vehicles actually worked properly, there used to be an autonomous vehicle race somewhere in the US. I saw a documentary on it in probably 2000-2003 ish.

Anyway, the coolest of all the autonomous vehicles was undeniably the autonomous motorbike. It did pretty well too, as many of the vehicles were utterly hopeless. It couldn't balance, trackstand-style, indefinitely like the one in the video, it had legs that it put down to stop.

 

[Red17]

Interesting concept, but I can't see a single use for it

 

[figbat]

Bet it doesn’t stop at red lights.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Interesting concept, but I can't see a single use for it

It might get me to start cycling again.

 

[Slick]

Does it pay road tax?

 

[Cycleops]

Interesting concept, but I can't see a single use for it

Are you kidding? I can see these In rows like Santander bikes, slot in a credit card and choose your route on a screen or by voice.
Use by the Ukrainians for scouting out the ruskies positions and then strap on a few bottles of vodka which the hapless russian soldiers will drink making them easy targets as they stumble around.
I'm sure there are loads more uses

 

[presta]

It's not exactly cutting edge: self balancing, not self navigating. More here if you can speed-read pidgin English.

 

[Baldy]

View: https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1796128167650034142

Why?

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Where do you put the helmet??

 

[Cycleops]

Where do you put the helmet??

I put mine in my Zara boxers.

 

[AndyRM]

Why?

Why not?

Folk do all kinds of weird and wonderful stuff for fun, just because they can, as experiments or educational exercises.

The world would be an emptier place if we didn't!