We’ve already seen that Honda can make a bike that can balance on its own and maneuver at walking pace—the Rider Assist and Rider Assist E concepts demonstrated that a few years ago—but the firm has applied for a patent on a bike that uses a self-steering system in the real world to avoid accidents.
In doing so, Honda joins rival firms including Yamaha, which has also been working on auto-steering technology, but the Honda design shown in the firm’s latest patent is aimed at a very specific, and seemingly unlikely, set of circumstances.
