Bosch has developed five new radar-based assistance systems for motorcycles and further developed another. Four of the new functions will be presented in a KTM model in November 2024 and will then go into series production.
Bosch is expanding the adaptive cruise control system to include a stop-and-go function. In the future, the adaptive cruise control will reduce the speed to a standstill if necessary and can be reactivated by pressing a button or briefly accelerating. Radar cruise control also when driving in a group. In addition, the ACC system will be expanded to include the new Group Ride Assist (GRA), which will also control the speed when driving in a different position Driving within a group holds.Spectacular distance functionThe Riding Distance Assist (RDA), which can be switched off, regulates a predetermined distance to a vehicle in front even without cruise control and automatically reduces the speed if necessary and increases it again if necessary. The step to emergency braking assistant is not far away – and Bosch is taking it too. If a collision is imminent, even if the driver’s brake pressure is too low, the Emergency Break Assist (EBA) intervenes. Two further assistants take care of the traffic behind. RCW (Rear Collision Warning) warns vehicles behind the motorcycle, for example by activating the hazard warning lights, when a collision is imminent, if the biker is overlooked or has to brake unexpectedly – be it when waiting at traffic lights, in a traffic jam or in moving traffic Rear Distance Warning (RDW), in turn, basically warns the motorcyclist on the display if a vehicle is driving too close behind him. Bosch assumes that the new systems could prevent one in six two-wheeler accidents in Germany alone, instead of the current one in seven.
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