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Brains-On: Wired.com Rides the Thought-Controlled Prius Bike | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Brains-On: Wired.com Rides the Thought-Controlled Prius Bike

Toyota’s answered a question no one ever thought to ask: What if the Prius were a bike?

The answer suggests it wouldn’t be as boring to ride as it is to drive. For one thing, the bike uses neurotransmitters to change gears. It looks a whole lot cooler than the car, too.

Now, the first question is “Toyota? Bikes? What?” The Japanese automaker is encouraging inventors and dreamers to tinker with its tech through the Prius Projects campaign. It did something similar with the Toyota For Good campaign that generated ideas for everything from better bike helmets to self-guiding ladders.

Toyota doesn’t know the first thing about building bikes, so it called in the guys at Parlee Bicycles, which makes featherlight frames, and Deeplocal, which made the Nike Chalkbot. Together they built the PXP (Prius X Parlee).

I got to take it for a spin. Nothing big, mind you, but enough to get a sense of how the PXP rides. I’m not a racer, just a guy who commutes on a single-speed Bianchi, so this isn’t a Bicycle-type review. But I didn’t need to throw a leg over the PXP to know it’s light years ahead of my ride.

via wired.com

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