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Kawasaki news
Kawasaki adds new colour scheme
for the Ninja ZX-10R in 2017 and
developing Artificial Intelligence
for motorcycles. Kawasaki’s Kanjo
Engine to allow motorcycles to
communicate with riders.
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Kawasaki has revealed a new colour option
for the 2017 ZX-10R superbike with the
production version of the current WSBK
championship leading machine available
in a Pearl Blizzard White/ Metallic Flat Raw
Titanium. Joining the current KRT Replica
and Winter Edition colour schemes,
this colour option will be available in the
Australian model line-up but it has not been
confirmed when exactly that will be.
The 2017 model Ninja ZX-10R continues
on nearly unchanged from the brilliant 2016
machine with the key differences a new
front mudguard and the colour of the rear
shock spring is changed. Elsewhere the
2017 Ninja ZX-10R is the same bike that
was released earlier this year.
Kawasaki’s Kanjo Engine
to allow motorcycles to
communicate with riders.
Kawasaki has announced it is developing
a system called the ‘Kanjo Engine’ that
is an Artificial Intelligence system that
will understand and react to human actions
and speech.
Translated to Emotion Engine, the system
will learn the motorcycle rider’s amount of
riding experience, skill level and riding style
and tailor the bike’s characteristics and
performance to better suit the rider.
Additionally, the system through
Cooperative-Intelligent Transportation
Systems (C-ITS) will be able to ‘talk
back’ offering safer routes to ride or more
enjoyable riding route. Kawasaki’s release
on the new technology states that from
the words the rider is speaking, AI (Artificial
Intelligence) will perceive the will and feelings
and the motorcycle will continue to develop
itself to reflect the personality of the rider.
While there is little more detail revealed,
it is expected that suspension, braking,
and power characteristics will be altered
electronically and automatically by this
system through an ‘understanding’ of the
rider’s actions allowing it to fine tune itself to
the rider’s style.
The work is being undertaken by cocoro SB
Corp (cocoro SB), a company of Japanese
telecommunications company SoftBank
Group, who in July announced plans to
collaborate with Honda in developing an
artificial intelligence (AI) technology for
mobility products.
Like Kawasaki’s moves on AI, Honda and
SoftBank’s aim was to enable mobility
products to ‘utilise conversations with
the driver, together with other information
obtained from various sensors and cameras
to perceive the emotions of the driver and
to engage in dialogue with the driver based
on the vehicle’s own emotions’.
In something that sounds like it is from
a prequel to The Terminator, Honda said
that “by letting mobility products “grow
up” while sharing various experiences
with their drivers, the project will strive to
enable drivers to experience the feeling that
their mobility product has become a good
partner and thus form a stronger emotional
attachment toward it.” The future is looking
very different indeed!
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8 RIDEFAST MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2016