A Closer look at BMW's Self Driving Bike
104With a death rate 28 times higher than that of a car there is a lot of safety features that will end up in motorcycles as they develop driver assist features.
What is actively being calculated in the video is the bike stabilization. The turning and stabilizing of the bike is an excited feature that could be added to a bike used to teach people to ride.
They are hoping to also provide guidance for object avoidance, they can start to figure out what’s the best angle or way to stay safe in certain situations. The end goal is not to sell self driving bikes but to create assistance systems that can help reduce the risk.
It’s impressive, we won’t take away anything from the demo, but we’re not actually seeing a self driving bike, we are seeing a bike follow a GPS track it doesn’t have any environment sensors. In addition to telling the bike where the track is, they had to set track perameters, for example it’s width and composition before it heads out to drive itself around the track.