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Rivian's TM-B electric bike

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iotsloppyo ◴[] No.45673384[source]
Reeks of Juicero.

NFS lock and unlock. GPS locator. Capacitance touchscreen controls. Hydraulic disc brakes.

Companion helmet with wirelessly connected brake lights, and noise cancelling(?!) speakers.

Why do we need to learn the same lessons over and over again?

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1. karlgkk ◴[] No.45673425[source]
What? lol

The issue with juicero is that their hardware design was needlessly and insanely over complicated, like magnitudes past anything I’m seeing here - and they DRMd something that didn’t need to be DRMd (juice)

For this bike, those are features people regularly want in e-bikes and cost very little to add - the bike already needs a capable cpu for battery management and acceleration curve controlling.

These are features that people differentiate these pseudo motorcycles on. “We” have learned the lesson.

The helmet is very juicero tho