Riderless Bikes
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This couldn't be more pointless.
Also, the complete elimination of human error opens the door for fatal software glitches. Remember those Toyotas that would throttle up on their own? Run you right off into your own death without warning.
I'll stop piloting my own vehicles when I'm dead. Hopefully not killed by someone's self driving automobile.
Also, the complete elimination of human error opens the door for fatal software glitches. Remember those Toyotas that would throttle up on their own? Run you right off into your own death without warning.
I'll stop piloting my own vehicles when I'm dead. Hopefully not killed by someone's self driving automobile.
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Driver less Trucks and Captain less container ships are on the horizon,
In the Jobless economy with no source of Income other than the estate trust of your parents,
will humans revert to cannibalism to survive?
In the Jobless economy with no source of Income other than the estate trust of your parents,
will humans revert to cannibalism to survive?
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besides, what's the fun in riderless bikes?
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3D printing is in it's infancy. There may come a time you can print a bicycle that you designed or purchase the printing license and print the machine in your garage. No need then for captain-less container ships.
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Who's gonna ride in an instep and trust their bike to ride them around town? They'd better build them right, too! It should be able to run stop signs, red lights, and finally people can stop crying about not getting waved at passing other cyclist, they got the time now, sitting in their aero instep, practicing for their next century.
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I'd like to see some posterless threads on BF.
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In a video, as part of a Bicycling Science, demonstration, David Gordon Wilson, Professor of mechanical engineering
at MIT, & author of the book of that science study ,, turned a bike fork & wheel backwards, so lots of trail...
and it without bars or saddle pedals etc, went straight down a hill , because of the large trail/caster angle on the steering geometry..
at MIT, & author of the book of that science study ,, turned a bike fork & wheel backwards, so lots of trail...
and it without bars or saddle pedals etc, went straight down a hill , because of the large trail/caster angle on the steering geometry..
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I had a quick mental image of Schwinn working with General Motors to adapt driverless car technology to bicycles. For people who want to bike but hate exercise!
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No point to me, other than making a low weight delivery vehicle or military intelligence (Spy) bike.
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