Just when I was commenting that we need a new safety bike for commuters, I find an article from Physorg on a self-stabilizing bike. Sure, that’s worth a chuckle, but also an interesting application of safety engineering that’s usually reserved for motorized vehicles and encouraging that engineers are studying ways to modernize bicycle design.
For every fixie rider that can demonstrate how bad-ass they are by descending Yesler in Seattle with no brakes, I’d argue there are 10 moms that’d like to ride to work, but are worried about many things, including falling.
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Nothing wrong with stability, but you get just as much, if not more, by adding another wheel. There are so many high quality, light weight, performance and/or utility oriented trikes available these days that I can only see a device like this as nothing but an excercise in pure engineering for its own sake. A nice thought, but totally unnecessary.
Nothing wrong with trikes, but this seems to be more about how to make a bike like a Segway. A bike that can do a trackstand all by itself— now that will make the fixies jealous! It could also provide some insights into front end geometries that riders, designers, and engineers are always arguing about.