Honda Motorcycles To Have ‘Bike Crash Safety Feature’

Web Desk — Honda is developing a motorcycle crash detection system that can call emergency services, a report from Cycleworld says.

According to the report, the system will use bike, phone, and Bluetooth headset sensors, providing “higher resolution” than the industry currently offers to help first responders act promptly in case of an emergency.

The data from these sensors will inform the emergency teams if a crash is minor or severe. Honda bikes have automatic lean sensors that shut the engine off if the bike falls over. The lean sensors on the bike will first detect a tip-over.

The bike will check with its next sensor, the cellphone to avoid calling for help at mundane drops.

Traditional crash detection features will ask the user to cancel a phone warning if a crash occurred. If the user does not dismiss it within the feature’s allowed time, the phone calls emergency services, assuming that the rider was unable to cancel it.

By adding a Bluetooth headset, Honda wants to eliminate that step. This resolution improves the system’s scene-rendering capability. Pairing with the Bluetooth device and phone, the system will determine whether the rider is lying on the ground, unable to move, or standing and walking off the tip-over.

The system will locate the rider’s phone and helmet and call emergency services if the bike is on the ground, and the phone and the Helmet’s Bluetooth device are static.

This technology is exclusively Honda’s and is currently in the development phases.