Self-Balancing Motorcycles
Slash Gear | 5/21/2024 | Mark LoprotoDuring the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Honda pulled back the curtain on its “Riding Assist Technology.” The demonstration showed a rider standing tall on a Honda bike, both feet on the foot pegs, and arms fully stretched while Honda’s Rider Assist Technology kept the bike from tipping over.
The prototype borrowed from Honda’s UNI-CUB personal mobility device. Skirting some of the heavier technology that other self-balancing motorcycle concepts used, the Honda Riding Assist Motorcycle keeps itself upright without gyroscopes. It was impressive to see in 2017 and remains so years later. However, since CES 2017, other manufacturers have stepped forward with their own self-balancing motorcycle concepts, each one tweaking how they keep rides from toppling over.
Something Barney Fife would have never dreamed of, unless he was actually dreaming of it in his patrol car outside of Mayberry looking for Speeders.
I have a motorcycle. At all times you are always prepared to make a maneuver that a “self-righting” program would endanger or invalidate. It has happened to me. Squirrel!
These people are taking all the fun out of life.
“But it’s my only line!”
We’ll take care of it in post…