It’s quiet. You see everything around you. You can make better judgement calls. It’s easy to be seen by cars. Motorcycle riders are far less likely to be involved in accidents than drivers of motor vehicles. According to the recently released report of the Motorcycle Safety Foundation, motorcyclists involved in fatal crashes (58% of all fatal crashes) were 27 times more likely; more likely to not be wearing a helmet (60%); even more likely to be factor to helmet use (67%); 9 times more likely not to have been licensed; 5 times more likely to not have their license with them; and 4 times more likely to not be in their own lane.
This means, statistically speaking, more motorcycle riders are killed due to not wearing a helmet and more likely to be a hit-and-run.
Wear a helmet and don’t drink and drive. Use eye protection. Use lane splitting technology. Do we need to go on? Technology is here to make motoring a safer experience, don’t deprive yourself of this protection.
Well, I feel safer with my new hovercraft As long as you have enough fuel, right?
These are just a few examples of why autonomous vehicles will not be able to do what we can do and will not remove the need for motorcycling. That doesn’t stop the nay-sayers from claiming the invention of autonomousvehicles to be a death knell to motorcycling.
I beg to differ. Autonomous is nothing without the human driver or rider.
Until then, you might want to take along a communications satellite to exchange some beeps and whistles. I’ll leave it to a future NASA research to find the best landing spot on Mars and send you the coordinates so you can avoid those mysterious bright red blotches.