Our involvement in the Toyota Prius concept bike has been a secret until today, when it was announced on Prollyisnotprobably.com. We recently became the envy of Pittsburgh’s bike community when John Prolly spent the day at Deeplocal offices to discuss the project.
While I can’t say anything new here that isn’t already on John’s blog post, I can tell you that the project involves hacking a bike helmet (which we’ve been doing a lot of lately) and partnering with Parlee Cycles (soon we’ll travel to their office in Boston). As a team that largely commutes to work by bike, we were excited to take this futuristic, Minority Report-esque challenge on. Leading the team is Matthew Pegula, Deeplocal’s Lead Engineer, a committed bike commuter, and (as you’ll see from the photo below, taken at CMU) a reincarnated famous roboticist.
