FEATURE
BOSCH MOTORCYCLE TECHNOLOGIES
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STATION 4—CONNECTED INTO THE FUTURE.
C
onnected Into The
Future, in its prototype
phase, effectively means
your bike gets equipped
with a Bosch Connectivity
Control Unit that commu-
nicates with many of the
other sensors and systems
on the bike as well as Data
Recording, and then inter-
acts with the Cloud through
your smartphone to provide
real time maps, weather,
road hazards, speed limits,
traffic information, most
probable path and upcom-
ing sharp corner alerts (via
audio), etc.
There is also a SIM Card
embedded inside the con-
trol unit which establishes a
voice and data connection
to a paid service provider, a
live person, sitting some-
where monitoring if you
need assistance even if
you were rendered uncon-
scious. The system works
off WLAN.
Emergency eCall
(mandatory for all new
passenger cars and light-
truck models throughout
the European Union from
April 2018), Stolen Vehicle
Tracking and Breakdown
Call (bCall), also come with
the package.
We were offered to ride
a bike fitted with a proto-
type version of the Sharp
Curve Alert. Minutes later I
was snaking down a twisty
kart track when a women's
voice started alerting me
inside my demo helmet to
slow down, "Sharp corner
approaching!"
"Good!" I replied.
It's very early days with
this prototype, but I think to
fully implement it correctly
Bosch is going to have
to come up with a way so
that the annoying women's
voice is not barking advice
into our ears too often, or
we'll just end up tuning her
out like we sometimes do
with our mothers.
(Above) A
warning system
integrated into
the smartphone
app will be
able to identify
hazards
before you
reach them.
(Left) Having
an automatic
emergency
call function
for when a
rider crashes is
bound to save
countless lives.
