MotoChat Lets You Message Other Road Users via LED Signs While Still on Your Motorbike

While most riders are satisfied with communicating on the road through vulgar hand gestures or a friendly wave, French company Omicron wants to take things further.

(All images taken from Indiegogo )

 

MotoChat (and CarChat) allows you to communicate live with the road users behind you. Simply say what you want into your micro Bluetooth and voila! The message will fit instantly onto the back of your bike or car to inform the person following you.

At least, that’s what the projected outcome is supposed to be.

The idea has not actually been produced yet, although a crowd-funding initiative has been launched on Indiegogo.

 

How it Works:

 

 

The device includes a Bluetooth microphone, universal voice recognition and an LED plate installed below the biker’s number plate.

The motorcyclist just verbalizes their desired message into the microphone and it will be reflected onto the LED board. However, the board only has room for 7 letters, though if your message is longer it will scroll to display the full message.

A different signal is used by the microphone so that it would not interfere with the normal Bluetooth intercom.

 

This system also features a three-axis gyroscope accelerometer that will detect emergency braking and automatically translate it to the LED board as a warning to drivers behind.

Let’s just hope they fix the spelling of ‘brake’ if the project ever gets released.

MotoChat also features an emergency SOS function in the event of a crash.

Lean angles of more than 67 degrees will be detected and interpreted as a crash, and the GPS tracker will track the exact location. It will then work with an associated smartphone application to send an SOS message with GPS location to a prerecorded number of your choice.

The person receiving the SOS can then be notified immediately, and will also have the option to alert emergency services at the touch of a button.

 

If you are interested in funding this project, check out the Indiegogo page here.