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Google Self-driving bicycleGoogle's self-driving bicycle: bike or fiction?
Okay so obviously April 1 has passed, leaving us with some laughs, some groans, and one more day waking up and remembering that no, Donald Trump is not a hoax. However, here’s one that managed to escape our April Fool’s Day round-up. We think it’s too good not to share.
For one day only, Google was offering an ingenious self-driving bicycle, its independent driving mode useful for when you need picking up and your bike is elsewhere, for working on the go and, as one enthusiastic mother points out, for taking the kids places by themselves.
New products, new bikes, new laws – road.cc’s April Fool’s Day cycling hoax round-up
Featuring lifelike footage of the bike trundling along like a two-wheeled R2D2 (or BB8), we think it’s rather brilliant; so in case you missed it first time, too, here it is:
Laura Laker is a freelance journalist with more than a decade’s experience covering cycling, walking and wheeling (and other means of transport). Beginning her career with road.cc, Laura has also written for national and specialist titles of all stripes. One part of the popular Streets Ahead podcast, she sometimes appears as a talking head on TV and radio, and in real life at conferences and festivals. She is also the author of Potholes and Pavements: a Bumpy Ride on Britain’s National Cycle Network.
No problem at all old chap, its successor the CAAD13 is available in mechanical 105 11sp guise (not too shabby a groupset IMO with Shimano trickle...
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That's an 'interesting and brave' repurposing of the word 'highbrow' there.
Best to avoid driving on the A34 if at all possible, never mind cycling on it.
I have two of these (I use one on the front with the red LED turned off and taped up) and think they are great, at least in daylight Plenty of...
With the lack of any decent content updates for a long time now, the build up to the tenth anniversary and the big hike in monthly price we'd...
No offence to Endura, but same advice as to Rapha, I actually have all the kit I need, for probably several years. You need to go and win the next...
Ah - yes, they've got an American Star the wrong way round (means the child carrier needs rearranged though). Or it could be a Facile but inverted?
What a bunch of ases
It was only your comment in the carousel that first brought me here, and yet I still managed to read most of the page before remembering this isn't...