The firm say the wide-angle lenses of the cameras mean there’s near 360-degree coverage between front and rear. What’s more, the cameras can also be used to record rides, acting like dashcams to catch the behaviour of other road users or simply for fun footage. Instead it uses wide-angle cameras on the front and rear of the bike, connected to their own standalone computer unit and mirror- mounted alert lights to constantly monitor and analyse the traffic around you, flashing warnings via the mirror-mounted lights if you’re getting too close to vehicles ahead, if you’re approaching the car ahead too fast, or if there’s something lurking in your blindspot before a manoeuvre. Unlike the radar-based Bosch system, which debuts in the 2021 Ducati Multistrada V4 and BMW R1250RT, the RideVision setup doesn’t offer adaptive cruise control. The company have already secured some £8 million in backing through seed funding, venture capital and crowdsourcing, and intend to have their system on the market during 2021 for around £320.

While not as integrated and sophisticated as the Bosch radar, Israeli operation RideVision are hoping to offer a degree of aftermarket spatial awareness for your bike as a bolt-on, artificial intelligence-driven safety system deploying a pair of cameras instead of radars. Next year sees the start of something new in motorcycling as the Bosch-developed radar system used by Ducati and BMW gives top-end bikes’ on-board computers a picture of what’s going on around them for the first time… but at a price.

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