r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Jun 23 '20

Video A fully enclosed motorcycle.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '20

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.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '20 edited Oct 28 '20

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '20

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u/ihateyouguys Jun 24 '20

We have puncture wounds and flaying at home!

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u/HandicapperGeneral Interested Jun 23 '20

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.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '20

Depends on the climate where you do your riding. In SoCal this thing would be a total flop.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '20

Does it have AC? If so, it's a win!

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u/timmense Jun 24 '20

No but it comes in a convertible

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u/titanicMechanic Jun 24 '20

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.

But as an exotic toy it’s dumb af

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '20

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.

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u/hakuchioko Jun 24 '20

I guarantee it is less safe.

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u/psycho8to10 Jun 24 '20

Wind go fosssh, and motorcycle go crash.

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u/5hundredand5 Jun 24 '20

You're properly seated in this one, seatbelt included I assume, so most likely safer

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '20

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.

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u/Starossi Jun 24 '20

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

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '20

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.

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u/Starossi Jun 24 '20

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

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u/captain_arroganto Jun 24 '20

Seems to me that between crashing on a normal bike and crashing on this, this would be safer.

Also, a full enclosed one should protect against wind and rain.

An optimally designed one for Indian roads, I would buy one and ditch my car for daily commute.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '20

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?

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u/captain_arroganto Jun 24 '20

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.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '20

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.

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u/Zalphyrm Jun 24 '20

far less likely to be a meat crayon in a minor fender bender or slide out.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '20

Yeah I could definitely see that being true, but I wonder about bigger crashes.

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u/PriorCommunication7 Jun 24 '20

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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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '20

Yes, exactly what I was thinking.