The Self Balancing Electric Motorcycle of the Future | The New York Times
The C-1, built by Lit Motors, is meant to have the efficiency of a motorcycle with the protection of a car.
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The Self Balancing Electric Motorcycle of the Future
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2019 is here now, where is my electric self balancing motocycle?
Fuku jk all day
I’m in 2024 and I still don’t see them
This is nothing short of amazing, you can't compare this to a motorcycle, been able to drive on almost any weather condition, I want one. :-)
Is it safe in terms of magnets close to the human body?
@@ptrolymbayhassan2714 nah it will rip off your but
I wonder if we will ever know why this never went to market.
No market for it. Motorcycle enthusiasts in the US won't care for it. Your Average US commuter already has a car and isn't going to buy an extra vehicle for $25,000. It's way too expensive for the Asian market. You can get a motorcycle in India for like $500.
I have their bumper sticker... "Get lit, then go onto the open roads!"
This should literally be everywhere, said it for years now. Imagine it with an autopilot, no more traffic worldwide!
No it's 2021😂
I would buy one for city use, much smaller footprint than a car. I hope someone picks up this project.
2016 here. 2 years past 2014. Is it here yet?
2017 now...
2018
SamuSeen 2072 now
2114. whats wrong with these guys, its ben 100 years.
@Tabrez In what year do we invent temporal transport (time travel)? Not looking for an exact date, just the year.
Now this car is available
not found on street up today 2019?
wheres it at?
It's been 8 years ... where is this now in 2021
Something like the Lit might "save" the Suburban Landscape as it presently exists in the US of A by permitting the "usual" commuter to get where he/she must go on a daily basis at less cost. Also, one must not forget that a vehicle that has a narrow track like this one will manage to avoid hitting an obstacle "square on," which is "kinda nice."
This is a great idea. It would transform urban commuting radically. It's a revolutionary idea. It will be huge success in India. And all-weather drive!
Well, that is to say an narrow vehicle will OCCASIONALLY manage a "near miss." (I was actually thinking of the "pilot fella" in, I believe, the book called M.A.S.H. Fiction, of course, but he seemed to survive very well, because he never hit anything "square.")
I would love to get one.
8 years passed the video yet didn't hear anyone riding this. Why?
the biggest worry I have with motorcycle is safety. If I am hit by a car, even not that fast, it is much more serious injure compare to riding a normal 4 wheel car, not if it fall onto the ground.
It is much safer than normal motor cycle. You need to change the viewpoint.
I can see a new Final Destination scene with this vehicle
2021, are they cheaper to buy now?
I had designed (at least on paper) a similar bike in 2010. Mine was almost like the C1, but without the gyroscopes. But I think gyroscope is a great idea. How much power does the gyroscopes use? Is it huge enough to affect the range? Also how many miles roughly do you expect per 1kWh? I hope greater than 10 miles per kWh; I'd prefer a larger range; at least 400 miles. Also some trunk space in the rear would be great. Please make the front and the rear somewhat symmetrical. Right now it looks like the rear has been chopped off. I had actually reserved one in 2012; been waiting for 12 years without this coming to production. I gave up. What is the ETA for it to be available to public?
Is it coming? It's 2019. We are waiting.
Is coming with gyro and four wheels in 2025...lol
excelente!!!!
Genius! Do the batteries spin inside the gyro? I had an idea like that back in the 70's, burnouts from a dead stop. I am a touring motorcycle enthusiast and this is an amazing idea and a lot safer that a motorcycle. can we get a 2 seater version? This needs a removable hard top as well. Please sell me one now!
Nine years later, nothing. I would say the CEO did not deliver.
How do u make a u turn with this one hahahah
How do motorcycles turn?
I remember a concept like this from the 90s, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was called. There are videos of it here somewhere, it looks identical to this but rounder, gas powered, and with a red body.
it's the gyro-x car
It's nov2020, when will it be available, it's such a amazing all weather vehicle
Need to figure out how to use a spinning battery for both forward momentum and gyro effect, the battery instead of deadweight is used to advantage.... magnetic brakeing of spinning battery possibly charge battery at same timeengage weight bearing wheel, via magnates...
Very cool vehicle.
When come this car
Well,... It's been 8 years, and it's nowhere to be seen...
When launched India Plz
such great ideas with price tags set too high
Would it be possibly to built the batteries inside the gyros to reduce the weight?
I love it
So where is it? It's nearly 10 years since this video. Is this a joke?
very wonderful
I would love to test one. The gyros are an excellent idea, but they must add a lot of extra weight. Do they serve any double duty, such as generating power while they spin, like a generator? Would they run at road speed, when the bike would otherwise balance on its own?
You can't put energy into a system and get more out Unless you're that one guy I can't name right now
when releasing in asia?
The first gyrocar in history is Shilovsky's gyrocar in 1914. A gyrocar is a two-wheeled automobile. The difference between a bicycle or motorcycle and a gyrocar is that in a bike, dynamic balance is provided by the rider, and in some cases by the geometry and mass distribution of the bike itself, and the gyroscopic effects from the wheels while driving. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrocar And that en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monorail_history
wish Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki make this motorcycle to be real...
AKIRA
They did
is there any video of It turning?
2018 its 4 years and counting is this 'vaporware' or they actually start production these
make a matching mini trailer to put stuff in.
June 2020... Still waiting...
Some car people are being jealous, you know that it will look cooler than your car. It's also safe
thats great make it
I want to buy it . But where plz.tell me
this thing is very cool in my opinion
Tyre should be inside body structure for congested road
The Greatest Thing. 5 Years Ago....
You shouldn't drive a motorcyle in wintery/snowy/icy conditions. But there are lots of warm countries where it doesn't snow, and where this type of vehicle would be more affordable than a car. Alternatively, what if this vehicle could be equipped with some kind of injector spray that sprays the tires with a traction agent if it senses the vehicle slipping? That might work too.
the Gyro is the big thing here, not even the bike model, It would be great for the bike to have extra gyros like a Pitch motion for lifting the front or back of the bike one at a time, followed with a Spin/Yaw gyro that can make it mobile as a skate board of a flat board scooter the way bikes are handled in the past lifting it over pavements or on to another trailer/cargo or shimmy into a parking space, most would also have fun with that, the way actor Tom Cruise did in the special effects of 'Mission impossible 2'.
I love this scooter I want to buy
design is solid.
I want 1 rn
The gyroscope must mess with the cornering as the bike cannot lean so easily. It looked like the driver was wiggling around in the seat when at a standstill and the bike hardly swayed at all. I bet it's spooky to handle through european twisty roads. Unless the giro is stopped once you set off. Who knows - maybe it just works!
awesome
does it comes with an airconditioner?
hi i want to buy one who should i cantact.
Me
how does it take corners?
Nice 😊
I want purchase it how I can purchase it
2019 anyone!!
2:05 Coca Cola :)
Is this electric bike available in india? I would like to buy it.
kitna speed deti hai
Gyros would make for crazy cornering capabilities on race bikes,would be able to make the bike lower, lower the cog, lengthen wheelbase and add significant power, making a faster bike in corners and straight.
how can we afford in india.....price and petrol version engine?
Very nice Bhai super baik kitne hajar ka hai
Awesome
kete tanka ba bhaina bike ta ????
Bhaiya Aisi bike kahan milati hai address
It's been around $14.000-$10.000 8years ago, i think now in 2021 the cost should be more less than that for mass product?around $800? Hope somewhere chinese.. And that model are surely worthy in this era, can't wait 2 seat type, worth enough to handle traffic jam
Hope tesla see this, it's futuristic
You hate it back!
Prius 2.0 has finally come!
Well that went nowhere fast. Shame, thought it was a really good concept
the whole point of biking is that you don't want to be in an enclosed lifeless machine, you want to be out there in the open one with machine and all that
i want to purchase this bike but how to purchase
Is these bike for sell right now
which time come in india, i want to buy it
availability and price in pakistan ?
What is priced
Can you tell me why until now it is 2022, but this car has not been sold on the market yet?
ls it available by online
Is available in India?
How to order in India?
How noisy is the cabin with those gyros going?
"When all goes well they keep the motorcycle upright"....and what happens when the gyro-system malfunctions??? I foresee billion dollar class-action lawsuits. Why rely on such high tech when we all know it will inevitably breakdown and injure the drivers. And 2 wheels don't do very well in the snow which covers much of the United States for 6 months; my motorcycle sits n the garage all winter long. So $24,000 for a 6 month vehicle for commuting? And there is no joy here which bikers want such as feeling the wind and leaning the bike over when going through turns; I love riding motorcycles but I have zero interest in this thing. I don't see any advantage here over a much more stable 3 or 4 wheeled vehicle. It's now 2019 so seven years after this guy predicted (2012) his sales launch would be in 2014 I have yet to see even one of these on the road here in the Midwest. Either there were serious problems or the market just isn't there. This is an example of a tech genius who didn't seem to understand the practical side of things.
Focus on flattened light rim 3 m broad carving tyre with ground clearance with 2.5 ft..decrease breadth portion 1.5 ft or breath structure not more than 1.5 ft with 3 ft broad rough muddy light tyre with 2 ft increase in length with more than 1200km on single charge with battery of 25 kW and motor 18 kW
This is good
Can't be much fun to drive, since it doesn't fly the road (lean) but the gyro concept has potential, if polar axis shiftable? Electromagnets?
Ummm....I had some trouble understanding that post.
if only it looked more bad ass
I'll have to be a grandpa to get this bike😂
Nice
Make a mechwarrior!!
I'd like to meet the people that 'invested' in this! :-)
Good thing I am not one of them.
I like it, imagine going on the highway on this thing.
is this come with AC
does it?
🤦
Interesting.