Most high-end cars come with some sort of radar/lidar/camera driver assistance these days. Bikes have mostly escaped this trend so far, but super-luxury electric bike brand Verge has announced that its adding radar, cameras and smart machine-learning to its TS Ultra flagship model in an attempt to improve safety by notifying the rider of cars changing lanes or pulling out of a junction.
It’s a move that makes sense: the technology already largely exists to help drivers avoid collisions, and motorcyclists would benefit significantly from any extra help. Verge is very much a niche producer, of course, but we’d expect more of this sort of thing on more mainstream machinery in the next few years.