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Forget autonomous cars – the future is autonomous riderless bikes!

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  • March 20, 2018 at 10:32 am #28269
    Tired of the trolls here and gone cycling instead

    Autonomous cars are such old news. We now have autonomous riderless bikes.

    They are starting a trial of autonomous e-bikes in the German city of Magdeburg:

    http://www.scinexx.de/wissen-aktuell-22504-2018-03-09.html

    These are cargo-e-tricycles, and the long-term idea is that they would be for hire as part of a bikeshare scheme. You can call them with a smartphone app when you’re out shopping, then cycle home and then let them autonomously return to their depot or docking station.

    They are going to trial these bikes in real traffic in a few weeks time.
     

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  • March 24, 2018 at 2:24 am #915129
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    Boatsie

    Lol. I hadn’t watched that.
    Lol. I hadn’t watched that.
    I thought I had posted a Yamaha that stood up and followed a designer along the curved stage.
    If interested I can post later.
    Tricycle is an awesome implementation of a great idea.
    Vonderbar

    March 23, 2018 at 5:51 pm #915127
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    Tired of the trolls here and gone cycling instead

    Boatsie wrote:

    Boatsie wrote:
    Seen a few on web. 1 looks like a car(at least 1). Would love a tricycle though. That’d be splendid.

    Well, that video shows somebody sitting on a stationary motorbike with a virtual reality headset, and it looks as if she has to sit unnaturally still and not move too much so it doesn’t fall over. That’s really something completely different and I can’t see what’s “autonomous” about that.

    The article is about a standard e-assist pedal tricycle with additional sensors etc. so that it can also cycle off on it’s own when nobody is sitting on it. I appreciate not everybody understands the German text, but the picture in that article gives the main idea.

    March 23, 2018 at 4:17 pm #915125
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    Boatsie

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NXMGi9kQ3TE

    Seen a few on web. 1 looks like a car(at least 1).

    Would love a tricycle though. That’d be splendid.

    March 20, 2018 at 11:24 am #915123
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    Tired of the trolls here and gone cycling instead
    hawkinspeter wrote:
    Your link is missing a colon although the description isn’t

    http://www.scinexx.de/wissen-aktuell-22504-2018-03-09.html

    Thanks, I think I’ve corrected it now. I used the “link” button in the editor but that seems to have gone wrong…

     

    March 20, 2018 at 11:19 am #915121
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    hawkinspeter

    Your link is missing a colon

    Your link is missing a colon although the description isn’t

    http://www.scinexx.de/wissen-aktuell-22504-2018-03-09.html

    March 20, 2018 at 10:53 am #915119
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    The Rake

    Didn’t Bradley Wiggins have a

    Didn’t Bradley Wiggins have a riderless bike in the Tour of Trentino a few years back?

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