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Apr. 15, 2011
Physics Of The Riderless Bike
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| A well designed bicycle traveling at the right speed will steer itself, no rider required. Reporting in the journal Science, Andy Ruina, Jim Papadopoulos and colleagues investigated what physical forces are required for self-steering and found that there is more than one way to build a bike. |
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