Ducati: We’ll have a motorcycle with FRONT and REAR radar soon

The double-seeing motorcycle is planned to arrive at a dealer near you in 2020.

Ducati has officially announced that as part of its 2025 Safety Road Map programme we will see a new Ducati model arriving on the market equipped with two radars. And that the double-seeing motorcycle will be a reality by the end of 2020.

Using sensors and radars fitted to the front and rear of the motorcycle, Ducati says its building a series of systems that will interact and provide feedback with the surrounding environment, helping to prevent collisions with obstacles or other vehicles by alerting the rider.

Ducati started developing these systems as early as 2016, in conjunction with the department of electronics, information and bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano University. The study has led to the development of a warning system based on a rear radar, able to identify and point out vehicles present in the blind spot.

In 2017 Ducati filed a patent protecting the firm’s algorithms for controlling the onboard radar, and in the same year research by the factory showed that fitting a secondary radar, at the front of the bike, would also be possible.

Ducati says that this double radar system will be introduced to the market when a new model arrives in 2020, and this new model will not only be able to warn the rider of any dangers coming from behind, but this specific bike will also have adaptive cruise control, a system that allows the rider to set a specific distance to a vehicle in front and maintain that distance automatically, while at the same time looking for possible dangers on the road ahead.