Think Bike!

A little change of footstep now, every bit today's weblog is all virtually motorcycles.

Of course, nosotros dear all things motorbike related hither at Veloce – a publish of the Velocisti regularly ride their bikes into locomote – too then route security is paramount to us. Sadly, a large publish of motorbike riders around the populace are involved in serious accidents annually, too amongst the weather condition getting warmer, it's fifty-fifty to a greater extent than crucial that nosotros all THINK BIKE whilst out on the roads.

Locally, Dorset Police convey launched a novel stimulate inwards social club to encourage motorists to THINK BIKE on a to a greater extent than regular basis. This has involved putting upward posters inwards 'hot spot' areas around the county where serious collisions convey occurred involving motorbike users. It is hoped that these signs volition highlight that route users take away to pay to a greater extent than attending to motorbike users. You tin encounter these posters on the next roads:

B3059 Somerford Road, Christchurch
A354 Weymouth Way
A354 Portland Beach Road
B3073 Christchurch Road betwixt Dudbury too Wet Parley
A30 Babylon Hill
A31 simply due west of lake gates roundabout to simply due east of Merley roundabout
A348 Ringwood Road close Langham
A351 Sandford to Holten Heath

Further afield, Autotalks, the global leader inwards V2X (Vehicle to Everything) communication chipsets, has joined the Connected Motorcycle Consortium (CMC). Autotalks volition locomote amongst other CMC members to assistance realise the vision of a uniform motorbike platform for V2M (Vehicle-to-Motorcycle) communication. Specifically, Autotalks too other CMC members volition locomote together to heighten Cooperative-Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) applications inwards motorcycles inwards a agency that volition assistance minimise motorbike accidents.

Autotalks' V2M solution is based on a instant generation V2X chipset developed past times the company, which allows motorcyclists too other drivers to have alerts on life threatening situations, inwards social club to avoid route accidents. The V2M enables detection of motorcycles that are non visible to the human eye, cameras, or other sensors.

To highlight the importance of existence aware of motorbike users on the road, Autotalks' CEO Hagai Zyss points out:
"Motorcycles convey higher chances of existence involved inwards a route traffic accident, pregnant motorbike users are at a greater endangerment of fatality. Studies exhibit that inwards some 1 tertiary of motorbike accidents, the motorbike is non visible to the machine driver. Autotalks is committed to minimising motorbike accidents until in that place volition locomote zippo accidents on our roadways."