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I wonder if I can get 95 to bet me on when the AB's will take over regular bikes on our roads. :D

Thanks for posting CB. :thumb:

almost 2yr old, yet posted in three threads in recent days

How will self-driving bikes affect LCF? Will cyclists be safer when more bikes are self-driving?

Is it all a plot by Google?

"Smartphone, smartphone, smartphone ... "

Really!

Those guys at Google are downright amazing; given these developments, making self driving cars that will turn the transportation world into a tizzy should be a snap by April 1st.:roflmao2:

Well, next thing you know, someone will invent a bike that shifts gears all by itself. :D :innocent:




:)

April Fool's day comes but once a year, but apparently stuff like this can enjoy a much higher frequency.

Regardless that it came out 22 months ago, I did not see it in BFs, maybe I missed it or maybe it was never posted.

At any rate, A&S needed a fun thread about now and this video just seemed good right now with 2 or 3 self-driving car threads running at the top of A&S for sooooo long.

The self-driving car thing has turned into the new 'helmet saved my life' thread.

It does share the phenomenon of True Believers proselytizing the unwashed with their zealotry. :lol:

I was being facetious. :innocent:

I knew they already existed, but I was thinking more along the line of the Landrider. :D




:)

Blown away, that is pretty incredible.

When is a bike not a bike...

Too late. Back when I bought my first mountain bike in 1990, I think it was, there was an optional "automatic shifter" that attached to the back of the bike and the rear derailleur somehow, and automatically shifted into a lower gear when it got harder to pedal, and into a higher gear when you spun the front crank too fast. I thought it was superfluous, and I think I was right since it's not hard to manually shift gears on a bike. It likely would have added a bunch of unneeded weight.

Think of how many times you have anticipated and performed a down shift just before beginning a climb; especially mountain biking. "Automatic shifter" is just one more fail in my view.

Not only that, all the downshifts while coasting to a stop sign. I think at this point I never even think about it, I just do it automatically.

It's been a long time since I saw that device, but IIRC it operated completely mechanically somehow, no electronics or anything like the device on the link above.

Or do some crazy PR stunt like launching an automobile into space.

Oh wait...

Pretty much the same reason they're a fail in cars. Though at least on bikes, automatic shifting is somewhat less likely to encourage habits as bad as it has in cars; I've yet to see anyone eating with both frickin' hands while riding a bike in city traffic.

Glad I didn't miss anything.

Yep. Done as an April Fools thing a few years ago. Almost ancient by internet standards

But if it did not make BFs, it was not a very successful April Fools thing.

Guess you missed it. Roll back about 3 years:
https://www.bikeforums.net/advocacy-...-re-again.html
https://www.bikeforums.net/jokes-humor/1056466-google-self-driving-bicycle.html
https://www.bikeforums.net/18656990-post789.html
https://www.bikeforums.net/general-c...t-believe.html

So one link was a year after the video.
Another link had all of ONE post and that was the OP.

Did you read all 4 of those links when the actually came out? Just curious.

If it makes anyone feel better, (or worse) this thread was the first time I saw this cute video. Again, thanks for posting, CB. Carry On.

How about those who don't care either way?

But I do agree that there's no harm in posting something new to you, even if it's old to everybody else. A good example of no harm, no foul.

Funny video

An inability to distinguish parody from reality is telling.

That's stunning.

I've seen it posted at least a dozen times, though probably mostly in email and FB groups

:lol: It got me till the end. What an amazing idea though huh? Commute to work/school then have the bike go back home till it's needed again. The shots of the bike just turning and taking off certainly inspire the imagination.

Watching it a second time was funnier imagining someone just having their children jump on the thing and cruise around alone! I laughed out loud at that part :D

Older and slower, we are. Need a motor to pedal to the end of the internet now.