![]() It looks pretty cool, has a HUD helmet and a tactile riding suit. And funded by companies including InMotion Ventures, which is the Jaguar Land Rover investment fund. So it’s a British electric motorcycle from a firm based in Coventry. The team behind Arc are led by the former head of Jaguar Land Rover’s skunkworks department, along with a MotoGP chief racing engineer and computer modelling experts. And a tactile riding suit which presumably uses haptic technology. What that means is a motorcycle helmet with a heads-up display. But Arc claim to have developed the first motorcycle with an integrated multi-sensory Human Machine Interface (HMI). That includes the big bike manufacturers and smaller start-ups. ![]() Various firms have worked on linking up riders and technology for safety and performance. But it’s the other technology included in the Arc Vector that inspires the science fiction comparisons. Moving away from petrol isn’t unusual now, as cars and motorcycles both strive to be more environmentally friendly. It’s a new electric motorcycle due to be unveiled at a big industry show in Italy in November, 2018. Or the tech of Hiro Protagonist’s bike in Neal Stephenson’s classic novel Snow Crash, which is what the new Arc Vector most reminds me of. Whether it’s Kaneda leading a bike gang in Akira, Kevin Flynn on a light cycle in Tron or the Terminator using a Harley-Davidson Fat Boy. So they tend to crop up in science fiction quite a bit. Motorcycles have always been cool vehicles for rebels and outsiders.
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