{"id":275367,"date":"2018-09-13T09:05:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T07:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=275367"},"modified":"2018-09-13T09:06:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T07:06:48","slug":"bmw-shows-off-self-driving-motorcycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/275367-bmw-shows-off-self-driving-motorcycle.html","title":{"rendered":"BMW shows off self-driving motorcycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BMW Motorrad has showcased a new self-driving version of its R1200GS motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>The self-driving motorcycle can start its engine, accelerate, and stop autonomously &#8211; and can also lean into turns to maintain stability while driving.<\/p>\n<p>BMW Motorrad stated that this self-driving vehicle is not being developed for consumers, but will instead be used to develop new safety features for conventional vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the data collected from this prototype&#8217;s driving patterns will be used to alert inattentive drivers to dangerous behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The prototype helps us to expand our knowledge about the vehicle&#8217;s dynamics so that we can classify the rider&#8217;s behavior and determine if a future situation will become dangerous or not,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If so, we can inform, warn, or intervene directly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Below is a video of the self-driving motorcycle in action.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4JlYE6nSNJI\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/275117-mercedes-benz-launches-new-gle.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mercedes-Benz launches new GLE<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMW Motorrad has showcased a new self-driving version of its R1200GS motorcycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":275369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29366],"tags":[53845,3718,53847],"class_list":["post-275367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-bmw-motorrad","tag-prototype","tag-self-driving-motorcycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275389,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275367\/revisions\/275389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}