Neuburg, 03.07.2018: xxx. Foto: Lukas Barth
As part of its “Safety Road Map 2025”, Ducati and Audi are collaborating to demonstrate a vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communications system between motorcycles and cars. Existing projects for Ducati’s motorcycle safety initiative include extending cornering ABS to every bike in its range and motorcycle front and rear distance keeping radar.
Extending the technology base a little further is C-V2X, a wireless communication system between road users such as cars, motorcycles, pedestrians, and bicycles and infrastructure. Using a Audi Q7 and A4, together with a Ducati Multistrada 1200, situations involving both four- and two-wheelers in common traffic encounters were demonstrated and how C-V2X technology can be used to help improve road safety.
These include Intersection Collision Warning, where a vehicle equipped with C-V2X technology pulls out from a junction with an adjoining road and avoids hitting a motorcycle rider who has the right of way. Another common potential accident situation is vehicles turning across the path of a motorcycle, which is addressed with Across Traffic Turn Collision Risk Warning.
Considering the vulnerability of motorcycles in urban traffic and the lack of attention some car drivers pay to their surroundings with noses buried in mobile phones, technology such such as C-V2X could prove to be a life saver. What do you think? Leave a comment with your thoughts and opinions, below.
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