Honda’s New Self-balancing Motorbike Ride Assist! When you’re shifting at high speeds, balancing a motorbike doesn’t often pose a lot of a problem. Unfortunately, while you decelerate and lose momentum, gravity tends to turn into a little bit extra insistent, notably while you’re driving a heavy motorbike.
At CES 2017, Honda is attempting to defy our cruel mistress gravity with its new Ride Assist technology which can preserve your bike upright even when it’s stationary.
Actually, Honda’s new technology will preserve your stationary bike upright even while you’re not on it.
Defying gravity
Quite than use gyroscopes for stability, which may add undesirable weight to a vehicle, Honda’s Ride Assist relies on and tailored from technology the corporate is already utilizing in its ASIMO robot and UNI-MO self-balancing scooter.
So, when the Honda motorcycle is moving lower than three miles per hour, or is standing fully nonetheless, it’s able to enter ‘balance mode’ which sees the bike’s steel forks extend the front wheel away from the main physique of the vehicle to supply better stability.
There’s no word but on when, or even when, we’ll see this Ride Assist technology rolled out to Honda’s bikes en masse. However it’s actually a helpful improvement and an attention-grabbing instance of how the corporate’s analysis and improvement tasks may be utilized throughout its products.
You’ll be able to see the intelligent know-how in motion beneath:
