Zingano
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Zingano mikelevy's article
Jun 1, 2013 at 22:49
Jun 1, 2013
Pinkbike Poll: Have Bikes Become Too Complicated?
Let's project this forwards a number of years. Your bike downloads your 3D route from the cloud, then takes you out on your ride. It knows every corner in precise detail, and the automatic steering takes the perfect line. The suspension compresses for you, the brakes are applied perfectly. The cameras spot fellow trail users, and the bikes' computers negotiate to avoid collisions. A few hours later, it delivers you, its passenger, back at the start of the trail. You've not worked, you've not thought, you've not learned anything.
This is my fear from all this technology - it's making things easier, and in the end, if that is taken too far, where is the fun to be found?