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BMW Motorrad unveiled its Vision Next 100 concept bike in California
Anyone looking 20 years into the future is expecting a world in which we are driven to work by a computer, in an autonomous car or even a pod. Vehicles will talk to infrastructure, everything will be safe and smooth and the inside of our vehicles will be more like a multimedia room at home than the car interiors we have now. But what if you prefer two wheels to four? Will there be a place for motorbikes, or electric e-bikes? The very idea of an autonomous bike seems fairly ridiculous — after all who wants to ride a bike that drives itself? You might as well be in a pod. Over the decades we have seen science fiction movies that have a hero riding between pods on a bike, but is that how it will be? Perhaps. BMW is clearly confident that the motorbike has a long future, even in a world of pods. It has revealed three concept vehicles that it calls its Vision Next 100 models: one for BMW, one for Mini and one for Rolls-Royce. They all look 20 years into the future, but in a Los Angeles a...
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