Damon Motorcycles to Use BlackBerry QNX in Electric Motorcycles

Damon Motorcycles will launch an electric motorcycle using BlackBerry QNX. The software is used for the 360-degree warning system, which bears the name CoPilot.

Named Hypersport Pro, the electric motorcycle will be on display at CES, which kicks off next week. Then more details of the vehicle will also be released. For now, Damon Motorcycles only says that it uses software from BlackBerry.

This concerns QNX, the operating system that the Canadian company previously used as the basis for its BlackBerry 10 smartphones, but is now mainly used in cars and industrial devices. Damon Motorcycles uses QNX for CoPilot, a safety system that can monitor the situation around the motorcycle.

CoPilot should be able to warn of collisions, among other things, by using radar and cameras. Interested parties can therefore see how this works at CES, but there will be no live demonstration; the functionality is shown on a stationary engine where the possibilities are demonstrated via vr. When the Hypersport Pro should be released is not yet known.