Autopia - Lit Motors C1

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Hey, this Damon with WIRED and this is the Lit Motor C1.

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If you're anything like me, you value your life which is

probably one of the reason you don't own a motorcycle.

That said, though, 80% of the population drives one car

with one person in it to work everyday.

That means we got clogged roads, we've got a ton

of other issues we have to deal with on a regular basis

and that's where this comes in.

This is the C1

from San Francisco, California based Lit Motors.

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It is a fully electric motorcycle but it's fully enclosed

and the production model's gonna have air bags

and infotainment and all that and eventually

it's gonna be an all wheel drive bike.

So that's not the cool part though.

The cool part is there's two gyros mounted beneath

the passenger and driver and that allows the C1

to stay up right no matter what condition it is.

So you can literally push on it with the weight

of about a baby elephant and it will stay bolt upright.

You can go through corners relatively quickly

and there's no worry about it capsizing or toppling over

If another vehicle hits it,

it can stay up right the entire time.

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So this is the first prototype of the C1.

It's kind of a rolling proof of concept.

The lad for them to work on as they work

on the production model.

Now when it goes on sale in 2014, it'll have a top speed

of 120 miles per hour, a range of over 200 miles,

and more importantly it'll be about $24,000.

If they hit the market right within two years of that,

it'll be down to $16,000 and has the potential

to revolutionize the way we get around.