Honda Wants To Teach You To Ride A Bike Honda Releases Bicycle Safety Simulator In Japan

Japaneseย super corporationย Honda has begun accepting pre-orders of
their 'Bicycle Safety Simulator'. As you can see above, despite looking
like an arcade game, the point of this thing is to teach bicycle safety
to children and the elderly. It's scheduled to begin shipping next year.
Although it might look like a lame arcade video game, the point of this
simulator is to teach bicycle road safety. According to automotive blog
Jalopnik, Japan has an increasing bicycle accident problem, and this is
Honda's attempt to reign in the problem.
The simulator will teach things like safety awareness and risk
prediction. Honda hopes to stock these things in places like schools,
law enforcement offices, and driving schools.
The machine will feature courses like 'going to school' and 'going to
the store' and other 'age realistic scenarios'. After you are hit by a
bus finish a successful ride to the store, the machine will display your
path, and show your virtual bike from multiple angles, presumably so you
can see and correct any mistakes you made. The simulator even features a
'walking sensor' that can tell when the user gets off and walks his bike.
With a big price tag of $7,852, don't expect many people to be taking
them home. Honda only plans to sell 500 of these things a year. I plan
on waiting until somebody hacks one of these things and installs a Tour
de France mode.