Not sure if this is the right community for this, but I see plenty of electric motorcycle stuff here, so I’ll bite. Message me if this is the wrong place for this content.
Anyways, really? AI? On a motorcycle? Isn’t the entire point of motorcycles feeling the freedom of manipulating your machine to do what you ask of it? Without any AI and data selling nonsense? Please don’t let this be the direction of motorcycling.
AI is powerful has a place in many areas. Just keep it out of motorcycles, a hobby defined by skill, freedom, and most importantly, fun.
Give us electric motorcycles whose tech adds to the experience, not tries to turn it into a IoT data harvesting device, please.
I like tech in motorcycles as long as it expands on the experience and doesn’t try to control it. ABS, toggable traction control, power modes, etc all give the rider more control over their motorcycle and can tailor the settings to what they want.
Meanwhile, “AI” in motorcycles seems like a way for the motorcycle to do things the rider doesn’t expect or want, or give lots of annoying warning sounds like the Vinfast VF8 (an awful car with terrible execution of the tech), all while harvesting data the rider was forced to agree to have sold to have the motorcycle move. (I don’t have to sign a T&C on my GZ250!)
Now, I’m not knocking AI everywhere. The term gets thrown around way too much, but it can have genuinely useful features. I watched the Galaxy Unpacked event today and most of their new AI features have tangible benefits. Much better than “oH lOoK tWo MoRe CoLoRs FoR AlWaYs On DiSpLaY, pLs UpGrAdE [while the update secretly adds new tracking]”