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<\/a>Photo Credit: Canyon<\/p>\nThis intelligent safety system transforms bicycle safety from reactive to predictive by continuously perceiving the environment, understanding context and anticipating hazards in real time.<\/p>\n
Through the fusion of data from various on-bike sensors and integration of rider dynamics such as speed, steering, and stability, the system builds a situational model that goes beyond surrounding traffic. As an example, the bike\u2019s 360-degree multi-modal sensing (camera + radar + distributed sensors including a multi-dimensional motion sensor in the DT Swiss wheel hub) can suggest cornering speeds while alerting you to upcoming unsafe road surfaces.<\/p>\n
In critical situations, the rider can intervene through more than just slamming on the brakes. Adaptive hardware such as allowing the rider to remotely drop the seat post can lower the rider\u2019s centre of gravity, improve their stability, and ultimately increase their control before a crash may happen.<\/p>\n And rather than relying on cloud computing, which introduces latency and privacy risks, the platform processes data entirely on the bike via Edge AI.<\/p>\n \u201cWe considered the numbers of people killed or seriously injured while riding, or the numbers who simply don\u2019t cycle because they don\u2019t feel safe, and we asked ourselves what we could do to address this problem,\u201d\u00a0said Canyon\u2019s head of design Fedja Delic.<\/p>\n \u201cCars have become inherently safer and motorist deaths over the last ten years have fallen but bicycles have not seen any significant safety improvements. In fact the proportionate and absolute number of cyclists killed or seriously injured is shown to be rising in many countries. While technology has made driving a car safer than ever before, riding a bike on the road has arguably become more dangerous than ever before. Yet with the technology available, significant bicycle safety improvements are more than possible.\u201d<\/p>\n The Helmet That Pairs With It<\/p>\n The bike\u2019s companion piece is Canyon\u2019s prototype Stingr Smart helmet with its drop-down visor which connects to the on-bike AI safety systems with audio and haptic notifications providing the rider with warnings before you can see them. Put another way, the helmet helps you see what you don\u2019t see. Data visualizations such as road hazards, the behaviour of other road users, group-ride dynamics, and advice on riding behaviour can be shown on the helmet\u2019s display.<\/p>\n<\/a>Photo Credit: Canyon<\/p>\n