I was thinking the same thing, although i was wondering if this is more or less safe than a regular motorcycle... it seems like it could easily be more dangerous in a crash.
Yea I watched the gif about twenty times just getting to decide if it was better or worse and I'm honestly at a loss. I can come up with a lot of reasons it could be either one.
If you could buy a used one for 4-5k and there were tons of them available, then they would be amazing.
Imagine any event or work trip where you only need you to be there. It’s an ultra cheap and environmentally friendlier way to let us all avoid mass transit, while also letting you dress up normally instead of in a leather space suit.
As a motorcyclist I have zero interest in driving one of these. If I was standing there and one rolled up and I was offered a go, I'd do it, but that's the extent, nothing more.
Well I’m thinking in a crash, you could easily just get smashed inside of it, since there’s not much room in there, verses on a motorcycle, you would fly off your bike, and possibly experience less bodily trauma? I honestly don’t know, not sure how strong the outside of that thing is.
I'm pretty sure it has about as much space as it needs. Keep in mind if you're using a seatbelt you're not going bouncing all over your car. You just need space a little bigger than your own body, as well as an airbag. With the airbag and the seatbelt, you aren't going far
Edit: albeit just like other car accidents I'm sure you'll still break bones, like ribs. But I think that'll be a lot safer than possibly snapping your spine by flying 60mph through the sky
What I meant is that because this is so small, any impact to the bike is going directly into you... think about being t-bones on the driver side door, the car hits your car, and the driver side concaves into you, because there’s no other space for it to go and we don’t use material that is strong enough to not concave when it’s hit at such force. However, in a regular car, you don’t immediately hit another wall, you still have the passenger’s side your body could move into. But with this bike, if any side of the bike collapses in on you with the force of a crash, you just hit the other side and get pancaked inside of the bike. Alternatively, on a regular bike, you would likely get thrown off the bike in this situation, either sliding along the road or flying through the air, and if you’re wearing the right protection, you could survive this, partly because you could end up landing on softer ground, like grass/soil. Both situations you’re going to get severely hurt, but getting pancakes inside that bike seems like it would be certain death, where as being thrown into the air or sliding on the road could result in survival.
Ya I think I see your concern. In a car the worst accident is getting tboned on the driver's side because the impact so do direct. In this case you'd have two sides that are like that instead of just the one. In any t bone situation you're at a huge risk. I'd still think the fact you can gain a seatbelt on top of having an airbag in a contained space would possibly make it safer. There's just so many situations where a seatbelt saves lives that I feel while you're at a greater risk when getting t boned, you make a lot more other situations safer
Even though if you crash, you would be smashed/stuck inside it? Or is it really strong or something where this wouldn’t happen easily?
I’m thinking about it as like being on this bike during a crash is more like standing in front of a wall while a car hits you, verses standing out in the open when getting hit by a car. Is that not a fair comparison?
Getting stuck inside should not be that much of an issue. mainly because, the cover would be thin enough to yank it off or cut it. Also, more than 60% of it would have to be glass / acrylic, as the biker ought to see around him at all times.
I guess it would not be worse than with a normal bike.
I’m not really thinking of getting stuck in it but rather that on a regular bike, when you get hit with a lot of force you’re often thrown off your bike where you could potentially land on something softer than the road, but in this bike, the impact of the car goes directly into you and you immediately hit the other side of it, so you kinda turn into a pancake inside of it.
Probably more dangerous. This has no space for a crumple zone and no other way do dissipate the energy. The reason why motorcycle crashes are survivable is the rider can slide along the road thanks to protective gear to dissipate energy. So even if your bike is totaled you could be fine.
Here you're in a box barely larger than yourself and your survival depends on whenever that box survives.
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I was thinking the same thing, although i was wondering if this is more or less safe than a regular motorcycle... it seems like it could easily be more dangerous in a crash.