Think You're a Smooth Rider? Yamaha's SmartRiding App Will Prove It
Yamaha has released a new app that records and evaluates riding habits. The free Yamaha SmartRiding app (available now in the App store) uses the Apple devices sensors to measure basic telemetry to evaluate how smoothly you handle curves.
The app requires the device to be firmly fixed to the motorcycle in either a vertical or horizontal arrangement (the app is compatible with iPhones, iPods and iPads, though I’m not sure how many people will mount a tablet to their motorcycle). Internal gyroscopes and the GPS processor measure acceleration and deceleration as well as tilt angle to measure how smoothly a motorcycle moves through a corner.
The data is processed and the app assigns a score out of 100 rating how smoothly the rider went through a corner. The app will gather data from every turn in a given ride and plot that data along a map of the route.
The data can also be displayed on a color-coded scatter-plot graph to show an overall evaluation of a journey. The app can also record video of the ride, matching the data with a visual recording of the ride. Data can be logged for personal reference, or shared over Twitter.
[Source: Yamaha, App Store]
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