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These five radar assistants are coming to motorcycles

(Bild: Bosch)

Bosch has developed five new radar-based assistance systems for motorcycles and one more. Four of the new functions will be presented in a KTM model in November 2024 and will then go into series production.

For example, Bosch is expanding the adaptive cruise control system to include a stop-and-go function. In future, adaptive cruise control will slow down to a standstill if necessary and can be reactivated at the touch of a button or by briefly accelerating.

Radar cruise control also when driving in a group
The ACC system has also been extended to include the new Group Ride Assist (GRA), which maintains speed even when driving in a group.

Spectacular distance function
Riding Distance Assist (RDA), which can be deactivated, regulates a predetermined distance to the vehicle in front even without cruise control and automatically reduces the speed if necessary and increases it again if required. The step towards Emergency Brake Assist is not far away - and Bosch is taking it. Emergency Break Assist (EBA) intervenes if a collision is imminent, even if the driver's braking pressure is too low.

Two further assistants take care of traffic behind. RCW (Rear Collision Warning) warns vehicles behind the motorcycle, for example by activating the hazard warning lights, if a rear-end 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), on the other hand, warns the motorcyclist on the display if a vehicle is following too closely behind.

Bosch assumes that the new systems could prevent one in six instead of one in seven two-wheeler accidents in Germany alone.