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Toyota create cyclist crash test to help develop driverless cars.
The world's largest automaker has built one of the first bike world crash test with a bike crash test.
The new bike is like a puzzle he pieces made of impact-resistant material They are broken in a collision and can be split back together quickly, ready for another impact.
It's been designed by engineers in the United States for security in collaboration Toyota Research Center.
They need a bike that withstands multiple impacts so it can be a target to prove that the new automotive radar technology for driverless cars can detect cyclists.
Toyota plans to sell cars by 2020 and without a driver, they will need onboard radar to avoid hitting cyclists The same technology could also help drivers of regular cars to slow down and away before any collision.
But realistic testing of new radar systems are difficult no reasonable cyclist would volunteer to ride in the path of a moving car.
Thus, Toyota commissioned Crash test motorcycle It's modeled after a 26-inch mountain bike because the most popular adult bicycle art sold in the United States.
Removable parts, unbreakable are made from a material that looks exactly the same radar as a real bicycle.
There's more to the project than cycling alone a bicycle on its own would be unrealistic if engineers have also created a cycling crash test to withstand repeated shocks.
His legs go around as if pedaling and has a special coating to mimic the radar signature of the human skin.
With a dummy bicycle rider and model ready to take multiple shots to the team, Toyota also has to find a way to propel them through the test track.
The engineers knew that the motor of an electric bike is damaged repeated smashes if they designed a robust small motorized platform with four wheels to transport the bike crash test at the collision point.
The platform can deliver the bike at a pace many cyclists envy It can be moved at a speed of 20 mph to 10 mph wind in all directions, the engineers say it can colliding with vehicles of all directions until the speed of 38 mph vehicle and reassembled in less than five minutes.
Of course, the hope is the car radar detects the bike and rider in time to activate the emergency brake before any impact occurs.
Pictures of the bicycle rider crash test and are not supposed to be released until the World Congress of the Society of Automotive Engineers in Detroit in April, but a video of Toyota pedestrian crash test gives an idea of the tests that they will pass.
It's hoped that the crash test rider does not appear that, too, comes from Tracy Island.
Max Glaskin is an award winning freelance journalist who tweets about cycling and science as CyclingScience1 and cycling is the author of science published by Frances Lincoln UK, Chicago University Press USA, and seven other languages.
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