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Driverless Motorcycles

EddMarkStarr

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Hey, it looks like a motorcycle to me, or maybe a golf cart.

Three-wheeler manufacturer, Arcimoto has partnered with Faction to produce "Vehicles On Demand", or driverless motorcycles that you can hire when you need a ride. Arcimoto says they make 3-wheeled electric vehicles, but depending on where you live 3-wheeled vehicles are classified as "motorcycle variants" - that means they are licensed, taxed and insured as motorcycles.

Like I said the last time I posted about Arcimoto, I'll hold my enthusiasm until I start seeing these things around town.

 
I like the look of them. I wouldn't mind owning one to use around town.
 
Years ago, we invested in a Canadian company that was working on an electric vehicle....but in the end, it was really just a golf cart.

And not deemed safe for roads.

Up here, it is probably cheaper to insure a small enclosed vehicle than a motorcycle.
 
rareboy said:
Years ago, we invested in a Canadian company that was working on an electric vehicle....but in the end, it was really just a golf cart.

And not deemed safe for roads.

Up here, it is probably cheaper to insure a small enclosed vehicle than a motorcycle.
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And that's the part that worries me. There are startups creating vehicles that may never be deemed "roadworthy" for sale to the general public where you live.
Vehicle laws go all the way to local laws and local jurisdictions can reduce access to, or hours of operation; the insurance industry can be a tough sell altogether.

Just imagine a three wheeler you buy in 2025 but unable to renew the vehicle license or insurance in 2028!
 
Once the Canadian Company realized they were never going to get approvals for the vehicle on any street or roadway, they stopped making vehicles and just focused on battery storage systems...but that was just a huge dead-end as well.

At this stage, I would only be looking at what small 'driverless' vehicles the main players have in development that are built to achieve public roadway speeds and designed to meet on-road safety standards.

Because I think that a lot of the other new companies out there are really just about burning through investor capital.

Although in truth, I still don't understand the need for 'driverless' vehicles, when it is clear that they will still have to be operated by licensed, insured drivers and still have traditional steering columns.
 
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Wowza!

One tap from a heavy car or truck, and that green ball is gonna get bounced around and ricocheted off every post and vehicle out there like a pinball game.

It might make one helluva stunning POV video from a dashcam, but no chance of surviving.

Cute little death-trap. Must be the revisitation of the original VW bug. :LOL:
 
rareboy said:
Although in truth, I still don't understand the need for 'driverless' vehicles, when it is clear that they will still have to be operated by licensed, insured drivers and still have traditional steering columns.
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Y'know, they didn't even work out well in Jurassic Park, now that you mention it.

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Maybe it's the cynical American in me but all I'm seeing is this having disastrous results and some poor family spending 9 years in court fighting for the company to compensate them for the funeral of their 6 year old daughter who was un-alived by one of these things. (Insert Martin Luther King quote about the profit motive)
 
/\ More often than with DWIs, you think?
 
Kahaih said:
/\ More often than with DWIs, you think?
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If you mean the VW Bugs, yes.

Click & Clack warned a caller not to even buy one to restore for her teenage daughter to drive. They pretty much said their construction was way insufficient for collisions.

We loved seeing them as kids, but now I'll never look at one the same again.
 
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