Google are at it again: Riderless Motorcycles

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I came across this: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2721139/Very-easy-rider-Now-Google-plans-driverless-robot-motorbike-wants-permission-start-testing-road.html

They are said have clocked up about 1.2million kilometres of driving time on California roads... I want to know how good they are at avoiding collisions when a car pulls in front of them.

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[Ste]

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[Ste]

The correct answer is that you raped yourself.

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[Robby]

There are a few advantages of bikes.

If you start from a position where you can trust the thing not to crash and kill you, then it would be quite enjoyable - like going pillion with someone you trust.

You could achieve very low fuel burn/energy consumption assuming the vehicle has been designed with that in mind. Would be a relaxing bimble.

The problem is trusting the thing. That's a good 20 years away.

[Dave70]

Not a bleedin' chance that you'd get me on one.
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[Rogue_Shadow]

Put the money towards automatic "driver'less" cars.
They should be safer & I have more faith in a driver'less cars not driving into me

[Tamsin]

There should be an "I feel lucky" button which takes you to somewhere not entirely unlike where you wanted to go, but not actually the right place

[sensi5446]

I doubt they would be able to filter as good as I can

I think a very good point of future self drive drone cars/bikes would be being able to get picked up/dropped off by your own vehicle, no need for parking just send the bike/car home or to a near by car park. Again going out on the town, get dropped off and send the car home To sell us them there needs to be a reason why we cant live without it.

Google are slowly but surely taking over the world, they have access to my phone and everything I use it for, chromebook and everything I search on it and TV thats run on android and has a chrome cast plugged in, next it will be my house (google nest) and car.

What I would like someone (Google) to do is make an motorcycle that can't be nick or is useless if it is nicked or will that be thrown in as part of the self drive sales pitch

[Tamsin]

A total remote shutdown? self destruct sequence?

[Baffler186]

What happens when it wants to stop? Stabilisers? Or does driverless just mean you sit on the thing but don't have to operate the controls? Meh, I don't see the point. Cars yes, but not bikes. If you want to be separated from the whole experience then go in a driver less car, but I see bikes as recreational transport so not really much point in taking the control out of it.

Maybe make a few for the disabled. Would be nice having your own Johnny cab though for nights out on the sauce.
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[Tamsin]

I was assuming that it would be stabilised by a gyroscope, keeping it upright in the same way as a segway

[Slacker24seve...]

Another take on this from the excellent Jalopnik:

https://lanesplitter.jalopnik.com/no-google-isnt-building-an-autonomous-motorcycle-yet-1620972877/+damon
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[dandelion]

If a motorcycle falls in the forest and there is no one there to ride it... Does it make a sound?

I assume they mean that they need not be steered manually? Riderless seems a bit pointless. Who would enjoy it then? Besides the nerd who made it...

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[shereen]

OP - Are you bumming bunny lingus?

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