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Wireless Bike Brake Almost Always Works

By Rocky Thompson on October 28th, 2011

Researchers have developed a wireless bike brake that relies on batteries and signals instead of cables. It lacks a brake lever, instead the harder you squeeze on your grips the harder it brakes. I suppose it will help you learn to stay relaxed through white-knuckle sections. The concept might be used eventually on planes and trains. Other good news, the inventors say that it works 99.999999999997 percent of the time. Might be good to get that last bit nailed down before you take it to market, though, I suspect normal brakes actually fail a few times out of every trillion braking attempt as well.

Thanks Mike

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3 Responses to “Wireless Bike Brake Almost Always Works”

  1. Peter October 28th, 2011 at 8:47 am

    dude, 13 9’s IS “all the time”

  2. Doug October 28th, 2011 at 10:15 am

    HA!

  3. Brian October 31st, 2011 at 7:47 pm

    99.999999999997 percent of the time it works 100 percent of the time.