Motorcycles Mixing With Driverless Cars, AI Must Be Bikers Savvy

Dr. Lance Eliot, AI Insider

Self-driving driverless cars need to be able to cope with motorcyclists

Here’s some sobering statistics for you. In the United States, approximately 13% of all car related crash deaths are motorcyclists. That’s a sizable proportion.

Indeed, I would assert that all car drivers need to be aware of and anticipating motorcyclists. Doing so is done to hopefully avoid getting entangled into a deadly embrace with a motorcycle, and spare too the lives of those riding on the motorcycle, along with avoiding correspondingly related car driver deaths and car occupant deaths.

On my own daily personal commute on the freeway, I see at least one downed motorcyclist on the average each day. That’s right, one per day. That’s nuts! Most of the time, the motorcyclist appears to be Okay and they are usually either laying on the freeway or getting up and trying to stand-up their motorcycle. Sometimes, sadly, I see the aftermath and there is a mangled motorcycle, there are ambulances, and a body draped with a tarp on the ground. Visually, this is all very striking and a constant reminder of the dangers of motorcycle riding.

For motorcyclists, the per miles traveled ratio for deaths is about 27 times that of cars. Simply stated, motorcycle drivers are taking big risks when they get onto the roads. They are riding on a vehicle…