Driverless superbikes – the future of policing?
Superfast, driverless bikes issuing speeding and parking tickets via mobile apps: that could be how police in future will manage and regulate the flow of traffic. Imaginactive, a nonprofit Canadian engineering company, is already designing them, reports CNN.
The bikes designed by Imaginactive, codenamed Interceptor, would in effect by mobile speeding cameras, scanning license plates of speeding vehicles, and emailing or texting the resulting fine to the violator.
Other engineers are designing similar driverless police superbikes. This is less futuristic than it sounds. The technology already exists, as demonstrated last month in Marrakech, where a driverless, battery-powered racing car successfully completed a track test.
It also makes sense from a logistical point of view. One police officer could monitor five driverless Interceptors, freeing up manpower for more urgent policing tasks, according to Imaginactive.
An added bonus: the bikes look really cool.
Image: Imaginactive
