[Timpo]

Originally Posted by GolfRSI

I think this is awesome from a sci-fi showboating point of view, but from a functional perspective I can't help but think that by-wire throttle, brakes and shifting, along with small motors to push on the forks or handlebars would work much better for autonomous control. Rather than engineer a human shaped object to operate human-machine interfaces... why not wire right into the software interface itself? The way they already do it for autonomous cars. As for weight shifting, they could possibly use a big weight on rails hanging on to the seat area that slides fore and aft and side to side to simulate moving around. Less cool, but probably way more efficient.

Although they did say the purpose of this little exercise is to gain better insight into rider safety systems... so perhaps that's why they went with a human shaped robot.

just like these?