🏍 World's Smartest Motorbike - a BMW of course...

Posted by Ken Edwards on 26 June, 2017

 

BMW has developed a motorcycle concept so artificially intelligent that it eliminates the need for the rider to wear protective gear, including a helmet. 

 

The BMW Motorrad Vision Next 100 motorcycle is the latest inclusion in BMW's Vision Next series.

 

It is a motorcycle that has self-balancing systems to keep it upright both when motionless and in motion.

It includes a "flexframe" that allows the bike to react and turn quickly without the joints found on present-day motorcycles. The idea being when the rider turns the handlebar, it adjusts the entire frame to change the direction of the bike. At low speeds only a slight input would be required, while at high speeds a strong input would be required to change course. 

The theory being an increased safety factor, so a small twitch at 160km/h isn't going to shoot you across the road in an unexpected new direction.

 

It also has several systems—one BMW calls a "Digital Companion," which offer riding advice (the "Siri" of motorcycles) and adjustment ideas to optimise the experience another called "The Visor," which is a pair of glasses that span the entire field of vision and are controlled by eye movements—correlate to return active feedback about road conditions to the rider while adjusting the ride of the bike continuously depending on the rider's driving style.

 

It's meant to equal the driverless systems automakers also expect to be producing in cars in the near future.

 

The BMW concept motorcycle may seem far-fetched and the stuff of Hollywood movie directors. However, like all its Vision Next concepts, BMW developers probably intended it that way. There is no way they want to tip off their competitors by releasing specification details.

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