Wednesday 5 April 2017

Google's Self Driving Bicycle: Bike or Fiction?


Watch the video about Google's self driving bicycle.  According to the video, the bike is useful for when you need picking up and your bike is elsewhere, for working on the go and for taking kids places by themselves.  

Do you believe the video is real?  What clues did you notice to indicate that the video is real or not real?  Write a paragraph to explain your thinking.  You are also encouraged to share any inventions that Google should try to create.  

40 comments:

  1. I don't think that this is real because, usually when something is released it is advertised first. Nobody had heard of this before. It also says only available on April first, (April Fools) and no product is only available for one day. What mother would let two young kids go anywhere on a self driving bike.

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  3. I dont think this bike is real because it wasn't advertised at all and how could it just move on its on and a parent wouldn't just let their 3 year old children go where ever they want

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  4. its fake only avalible on april 1st? the day of pranks obiosly fake

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  5. Steven, I think it is fake like how it says "Only available April 1st" its an April Fools joke

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  6. I think it is a prank (and or a joke) because it only says
    "Available on April 1st.(Aprils fools) the bike wouldn't be available for one day. A mother would let there two little kids go to places with no adult.

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  7. I think that video is real because it could just be a robot.

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  8. I know this is a fake video because when the guy pushes over the bike but it doesn't fall tells me that it is fake since there is not that kind of gravity. Secondly I says only available on April 1st and I found that it was fake on a website.
    ~Brooke

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  9. I don't think this is real because it said in the video
    that this is only available on April first witch is April fools.And google likes to prank people on April fools day. Also in the video a mother just let her to little kids go anywhere with the bike and A Good mother would not allow a toddler go anywhere with out supervision.

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  10. i think this is really fake why i think that because when the bikes move i think that it is someone pushing the bike and then later they will crop them out so it makes it look like the bike can move on it on its own another thing is that a bike cant just fall over and think oh i'm just going to stand up cause i'm falling down cause i bike isn't a living thing and the camera don't do anything the only and if it did work the parents will have to paying attention all he time and how they said it was relaxing it wont be cause if they fall asleep the kids will get in a car crash or some thing so that's why i think that it is fake, and that they paid the people to say what they want them to say

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  11. I think the bike is not real because i dont think a bike can stand on its own. Also because april 1 is april fools day and they said only available for april 1.

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  12. Grace I think that its fake because you'd probably find it on the news and other Social media other than youtube. Plus It just looks fake and not real at all. They could probably just make some Photo shop and stuff like that. Basicly and on who knows how to use a phone or a computer. Can do that editing.

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    1. I know it would be photo shop and good answer

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  13. I meant to say what mother would let kids go somewhere by there self

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  14. I dont think the self riding bike is real because how could it just drive and when they pushed it down it just came back up and it was on April 1 [April fools day]

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  15. I know that this video is fake because Google makes lots of April fools jokes and if you open this video in Youtube there will be a link in the description say "See how the video was made" and if you watch that video it will show all the tricks Google used.
    ~Mathis

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  16. Grace I think that its fake because you'd probably find it on the news and other Social media other than youtube. Plus It just looks fake and not real at all. They could probably just make some Photo shop and stuff like that. Basicly and on who knows how to use a phone or a computer. Can do that editing.

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  18. i think that the self riding bike is not real because a mom will not just let there kid go on there own and they put it on April foll

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  19. There is a couple things that really give away this is fake. One reason why is because google would advertise more about the google bike. They said in the video it was one of the best inventions since the bicycle. If it were that important then they would've had more advertising. Two, they would at least say some of the professors that helped out with it. But if they did that, people might've looked up the names of the professors at google headquarters, but if the copied one the names from google headquarters, that would be identify thief, which is a felony.

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  20. I think its fake because who lets the little kids go where ever they want by them self. At the end it said on available only April 1st. i don't believe that a bike can stand up on its own and google plays April fools jokes every year...

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  21. I think that the bike is not real because for one why would a mom let her two kids that are like toddler age go out on their own and i know that because my mom would defiantly NOT let me do that and that is a known fact in my family.

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  22. fake, google is fame for prance, you can, push a pike and it stamn up

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  23. I think that this video is fake because I don't think that a two wheel bike can stand on it's own. I also think that if this product was real than they should advertise more

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  24. I don't think the video is real because who would let there child go were ever they want. I also think its fake because i don't believe how a bike can stand up on its self

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  26. Its fake because when the guy let go of the bike it still stayed up and things can stand up on its own with gravity. Also theirs chains on the bike and petals but the weals move on there own. that is why I think the bike is fake.

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  27. My Silver dollar day was on a Wednesday of March break I was waiting for my 1100 dollar drone with its accessories to come in. It was made by a company called DJI and the model was the Phantom 3 4K. It was supposed to come on Friday so I figured I would do some research on it, so when I was at my Grandpa's I grabbed my Ipad and started researching.

    5 Minutes later…
    I get a text from my Dad, “Parcel is Here” I write back “My Drone” then he texts back and says “Yes” I tell my grandpa and he is surprised. I race into his truck. We drive down , we grab it and I’m crazy excited!

    When we get home….
    I go to the table and grabbed the scissors and unbox it! It is super cool. I didn't really know how to set it up but I manage to later that night, I finally get it charged and ready to fly. Me and my dad go out and fly it and it is so cool. I am really excited on how cool it is. It shoots 12 megapixel photos and 4k videos.

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