News Vela AI uses Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 to enable safety-conscious smart bikes

[Admin]

Velo AI is using a Raspberry Pi CM4 to power copilot, an AI driven smart bike device that monitors your surroundings for traffic.

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[Findecanor]

Is choosing the name "Copilot" for a new AI-based product really a good idea?
Don't you think people would get massively confused about what it is, who is behind it, and what the system does with the image data?

 

[bit_user]

Something about "safety-conscious" and hardware without ECC memory feels wrong. However, I guess it's not actually a safety-critical system (i.e. you can still safely operate the vehicle if it malfunctions or dies).

As for their approach, I just use a rearview mirror attached to my bicycle helmet. Works well enough for me.

 

[USAFRet]

If you need your bike to tell you about surrounding traffic, you're doing it wrong.

Get off the phone, eyes up, and look around.

 

[CelicaGT]

A novel approach but the high price won't pull potential buyers from existing products. Note that these Garmin units are simply rear facing radar but the end use is the same. As a cyclist I definitely will stick to a known, reliable brand, the fact it integrates with my existing kit is icing on the cake.


https://www.garmin.com/en-CA/p/669024

 

[SparklyIO]

If you need your bike to tell you about surrounding traffic, you're doing it wrong.

Get off the phone, eyes up, and look around.

You fundamentally miss the point. This is a Defensive Driving tool for bikers. Drivers are the primary threat to non-drivers on a street, and this is intended to reduce risks that drivers in 4,000-lb+ metal cages coming double or triple your speed behind you pose if, as the person in front, you can have any control.

Although, I would concede that extra alerts probably won't save a biker when a driver intending to do harm or even not paying attention (because of their phone??) And drives up fast behind on a collision path.

Trying to think of a car analogy equivalent.... itd be you're in a car or truck and 80,000-lb dump trucks 20x your weight) outnumbered you on the road by 10x, and they could go 0-60 in 8-secs and go 3-4 times your speed by pressing on a pedal. You might want defensive, rear facing alerts more than just your mirrors.

 

[USAFRet]

You fundamentally miss the point. This is a Defensive Driving tool for bikers. Drivers are the primary threat to non-drivers on a street, and this is intended to reduce risks that drivers in 4,000-lb+ metal cages coming double or triple your speed behind you pose if, as the person in front, you can have any control.

Although, I would concede that extra alerts probably won't save a biker when a driver intending to do harm or even not paying attention (because of their phone??) And drives up fast behind on a collision path.

Trying to think of a car analogy equivalent.... itd be you're in a car or truck and 80,000-lb dump trucks 20x your weight) outnumbered you on the road by 10x, and they could go 0-60 in 8-secs and go 3-4 times your speed by pressing on a pedal. You might want defensive, rear facing alerts more than just your mirrors.

Believe me, I fully understand defensive cycling.
I've lived long stretches of my life with only a bike.

This thing warning that a car is coming up behind me is something I should already have known.

 

[COLGeek]

Having ridden 10's of thousands of miles in both the US and Europe, something like this concerns me. It potentially gives riders a false sense of security, rather than remaining fully aware and vigilant while riding.

There is a downside to this crutch. One will never be attached to anything I ride.