The article I am going to talk to you about today is an article on this guy his name his is Holger Hermanns  and in this article it talks about how he is coming up with this new type of system for breaking and it is a form of wireless braking that right now is on a prototype for bike but he hopes to eventually put into production of bikes but also advance it to the point where they can then use it on trains and cars. The system they use right now on the bikes is powered by a battery and it uses sensors on the pedal and the handlebar to stop by applying pressure on a button on the handlebar and pedaling backwards on the pedals and the amount of pressure you apply to those areas is how much you are going to stop. 

wireless braking

My reaction to this article is that I think this is a very cool idea to use in the innovation of breaking technology for the cycling community because all throughout the history of bikes they have always had those hard metal brake lines and they always use to break and then you would have to buy new ones and that would cost a lot of money for people but now with this new technology it makes biking so much easier because now all you have to worry about is the battery running out of juice and that is a lot cheaper than having to keep buying those lines like I said before. I would also have to agree with him I think that it could also lead to a new way for trains and other vehicles to stop as well because “ a good wireless system will keep the trains moving better. Currently, tracks have systems that count the number of axles that travel over them. One section of track counts up, another count down. When the total zeroes out, the system decides it's safe for another train to come through”. So as you can see I would have to agree with this article and say that this could be the new future of braking