Yamaha unveils latest self-righting bike

While European manufacturers tend to focus on heritage and then make their new bikes seem amazing by comparison, Japanese manufacturers seem to more willing to innovate with technologies that don’t exist yet.

Yamaha are, by no means, the first marque to develop a self-righting bike - but they are the latest to show off what they’ve come up with.

Forgive us if we get a few of the details wrong - the press release has been translated from Japanese and not very well. And the main quotes are from someone called Suzuki - just to confuse us further.

Basically, AMSAS stabilizes a vehicle at low speeds by controlling throttle and steering forces.

Yamaha has set a target of reducing the number of fatal motorcycle accidents to zero by 2050 - which seems a bit ambitious but then it's only a target. It's just something to sound good on a press release. That becomes even more ambitious when there’s no mention of when this technology will actually be commercially viable. It may well be 2050 by the time it’s actually a reality.

There’s also something about a robot rider - but they forgot to include it in the press release, even though they attached the photo. So that’s the one we used - because we thought it looked cool.