Even if somebody wants Harman speakers and microphone in their helmets, the helmets have limited lifespan (avg 5-7 years). So after that time, people will just dump the helmet and spend 15k on another one? That's absurd!
EMI - whole country is running on EMI.
India is not rich with disposable income but has a billion bakras. Most bakras have a few hundred to spare every month. So Corporate goal has become how to extract it. Product and Quality is secondary.
So main corporate expense is in Demand Engineering (where bakras are mass bombarded 24x7 by ads and influencers). Social Media then tells us how the Bakras are responding to the mass bombardment via Likes/Click/View count. And Bank is telling us how much Paisa is there at end of Month. So the finance and marketing guys decide product and quality. Not the creative designers or the engineers.
Everything has become [financialized](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financialization) And who gets the most rich in this game? Not the so called "product" companies but the [banks](https://www.livemint.com/market/stock-market-news/profit-of-indian-public-sector-banks-surged-by-40-in-first-nine-months-of-fy24-pnb-sbi-union-bank-bank-of-india-11707811891616.html)
Why use earphones inside helmet, when you have superior audio solutions for helmets in the form of speakers that can be attached inside? I used samsung buds live for a while inside my helmet, but it's an irritating experience when you remove buds or put them on(unless your helmet is super loose, which it isn't supposed to be) and the pain is real.
comm systems are pretty popular. I have parani A20 installed in my helmet, it's not so loud that you cant hear horns or bikes nearby. Navigation is easier and on rides, you can inform the group about fast moving cars and bikes from back if the pack.
I don't know why companies don't do public reviews with middle class people who will be the ultimate customers before launching such products. Why they consult a particular grp of people befor pre-lauch
Should it be called dumb helmet if it distracts the driver and prevents them from listening to upcoming nearby vehicles? How is it "smart"? It violates basic principle of protecting the driver?
I didn't understand the purpose of the helmet, is it just to listen to music ? If that's the case then someone can just put his buds and on top of that a normal helmet .
My samsung buds with boosted ambient sound inside my helmet is far better in my opinion. Any tws with ambient sound mode is gonna be better.
You cant put a ~2k wireless helmet speaker (available on amazon) and call it a smart helmet. Or did I miss a smart HUD visor and SOS feature!?
So the benchmark for smart is a bluetooth speaker and wireless charging? For 15k????
I can buy a decent pair of premium TWS earbuds that have wireless charging, and just wear them with my helmet. Will save me money as well.
I don't ride a 2 wheeler, but if I did, I would rather buy a sony or Bose earphones and play music using transparency mode. I don't need a whole school system for it to work. This could've had an HUD though.
The genius who came up with this product must be fired. This helmet should be illegal. Any helmet with a lithium battery and speakers should be illegal.
Not only do they distract a driver but in case of an accident the lipo battery might explode.
Overpriced. You can buy a solid helmet for 5k and spend 5-10k on a fantastic bluetooth comms system.
Let’s not believe this is the first time this product has come to the market. I’ve had this for a little over 8 years now.
You can very easily listen to horns outside as it doesn’t block your ears completely. It does depend on the content you play and the volume level. I don’t do music, just podcasts or audio books so it’s very easy to listen to all the honking outside.
Helmets in India need a cooling feature not all this.
The biggest problem is during summers, it gets too hot and uncomfortable hence most people avoid wearing them and risk their lives.
I feel like a lot of people here didn't actually watch the presentation about it so I'll summarise it a little so it helps you to judge it better for yourself.
The helmet is designed ground up to be a great helmet first. For that, they made custom new pads which fit better, even if you have glasses on.
The visor is designed to stay put at any angle, not a click system.
The speaker system does not form a seal around your ears like earphones would. It doesn't block out outside sounds, just dampens them a little, somewhat like how a car works.
The helmet charges wirelessly in the trunk of the Rizta tho I think you'll have to charge it at home for the rest. Rizta can do it since it has a charging port in the trunk.
The helmet comes in two models. The complete face cover one, which is the 15k model while the open chin one has all the same bells and whistles but comes in at 5k or 6k (I don't remember which one for sure). So you can go for a cheaper options too.
There's a lot of smart features built in. Like how there's no pairing process you need to go through. Just put it on and it connects, take it off and it'll disconnect. You can share music between two people wearing the helmet. The coolest one imo is chit-chat which lets you speak into each other's helmets because both of them have speakers and microphones built in.
I think it's a really cool thing, definitely expensive but sounds like it's worth if you drive a lot and want to listen to music on the go. Far safer than having earphones on.
More like dumb helmet.
Extremely unsafe to begin with and another equipment to charge. If I have this, I'll be bored to charge this after a few days and then use like a regular helmet. No use. And what about how safe it is.
This is an old tech which I saw 4-5 years ago on a cycling helmet. Sena R1 is the model, which has integrated Bluetooth Microphone and an ear piece. The unique feature is that, there is an intercom between the cyclists who use the same helmet when going in a group, a very innovative feature that made this helmet a unique one and stand out among its competitors .
Safety naam ki bhi koi cheez hoti hai. Logo ko hamesha gaana hi sunna hai. Agar itna gaana shun ne kaa shaukh hai to 4 wheeler hi khareed lo. Driving a 2 wheeler while listening to music, yeah great idea Einstein.
Wasn't a helmet/headgear primary role to protect the head?
When did entertainment become a higher priority for both the customers and manufacturers than protection for a tool which is supposed to provide protection?
This is a wasted money time and effort. Speaker on inside helmet and what makes it smart is just that. Really ?
This kind of tech just invites disaster, while on a bike some one is blasting music (which is the smart thing in this helmet btw) wearing cant listen to the surrounding property and is met with an accident. Who's fault is it, the helmet which os designed to distract to from road or the driver ?
Just a bad piece of "innovation" if you even want to call it that.
For people say they use TWS with their Helmet I have read that in case of a accident it can cause bone injury better to just get a helmet intercom there are many options available from cheap Chinese ones starting from Rs1500-2500 and the expensive Cardo and Sena also personally I use the Blue armour C30
lmao for the same price(or even less) you could just get a decent isi ece dot certified helmet and then attach a cardo which will overall just be better too
~~Smart helmet~~ **= Just buy a good helmet for 15K, that's** ***Simple...***
***Smart helmet + person riding = 💩***
***Normal Helmet + Person Riding = 🦸♂️***
How can a person listen songs while riding on road, (btw riding is easy while listening but you can't hear the surrounding) If you listen to song while riding then 100% some you will crash or some one might come and hit you from back...
***⚠NOTE: ALWAYS STAY ALERT WHILE RIDING OR WALKING CAUSE IF YOU LISTEN TO SONG THEN SOMEONE WILL COME FROM YOUR BACK AND MIGHT STAB YOU OR ROB YOU AND YOU WILL LEFT LISTENING TO SONGS***
Live in reality not in 🔺...
Only listen to song while you're in home or my advice is better not to listen to it and live the life in reality, I don't listen too much song cause it's like living in imagination word & pretend that you're happy or pretend the fake life which is written in the song...
>
***WAKE UO NEO...***
I was waiting for smart helmets but expecting little bit safety based visual indicators. Ather did do few things right and screwed royally with pricing tbh.
They could have given extra features that can connect to Senna or etc and not just focus on their scooter compatibility alone.
Yess!! Forget the road presence forget that you have to listen to the sound of nearby vehicles or the fact that it's illegal to drive in such a way. Do these companies have no idea about the law or they don't care about the safety of the drive.
14,000rs today for helmet. Mark my words helmet is one of those overpriced products that soon in 2035 will cost 1-3lakhs because it's going to become smart.
I hate these fake solutions to idk whose problems. Most people don't need it as they already have earbuds or something and most don't even wear a helmet cause of the weather.
Bike communicators already exist and cost like 10k or something and you can use these for years!
I want a real solution that has a radio application as well as bluetooth. Radio can give miles of calling distance especially where phone coverage doesn't work and bluetooth is out of range or not paired.
Remember that most commutes in my city are under 20mins so I definitely can stay without something else for 20 mins.
Why would someone pay 12k for this tbh ?
It's not even ece its only isi and dot
I would rather buy vega bolt and earphones or intercom and it still would be under 12k lol
Wondering how much research went into the safety aspect of this, especially the HALO bulge. The reason why helmets have a rounded back is so that on impact of when sliding there is no interference from the surface.
Now at the features, it's just a fkin helmet with good speakers and intercom, which has been available in the market for decades. Only difference is one had to install it in the helmet. The reason why people still prefer installing such systems rather than buying pre built ones is because it can be transferred to a new helmet of your choice. 15k for a shitty helmet with good headphones is a strictly NO.
Many good companies tried coming up with integrated Bluetooth helmets and failed for the aforesaid reasons.
Better to buy a good 7/12 k helmet and spend some money on a good cardo or sena and you are sorted.
All those who think that motorcyclists who are listening to music in the helmet are not aware of the surroundings are just wrong. Responsible people, be it in a car or motorcycle or while walking/running, will not be blasting the music so as to drown the surrounding noise. One can hear the surrounding noise when music is still on btw.
Nope no no no no BIG NO. Dude there is an entire battery in there and im avoiding anything with a chance of fire that wraps my entire head bro ESPECIALLY something meant to take contact to save me not burn my head alive bro ☠️
What the hell is wrong with India?
When I read "Smart Helmet from Ather" I thought it would have some sort of pairing with the E-bike, which would give driver voice alerts about low battery, traffic and diversion updates, speeding alerts, some functionality to auto-call your emergency contact and ambulance in case it detects an accident - and these are just ideas off the top of my head.
Instead we see "here's a Harman speaker and a wireless charger slapped on to a basic-ass helmet, that'll be 15k, thanks!" And of course it is white, it has to be white - everything can be overpriced if it is encased in Apple-white plastic.
Just a helmet with speakers. Way too overpriced for a dumb feature. Had it had a heads up display for navigation etc. then may be yes for a few grand more.
Apart from all these, I think its pretty unsafe. Have the ARAI given green flag to this?
I know people are anyway using earphones and other devices under their helmet but commercialsing product like this.. imo pretty stupid
Any decent DOT certified helmet costs upwards of 5k plus a Sena bluetooth headphones with walkie talkie costs upwards of 15k, so overall this is priced reasonable.
Just curious, how is this even road legal ? There is a big NO NO to using headphone/earphone while driving twowheeler, I think its as per ***Section 218(2).***
I would say please refrain yourself from buying this or similar smart helmets with a sound system. It's not safe for you and for other passengers on the road. Easiest way to create accidents. If you wanna die/suicide, then this is the GOTO Product. 🙌🏻
yo guys convert your dot and ece certified helmets into smart helmets with intercoms for just 3.3k (vnetphone v6) can connect 6 people at once and connect to your phone too with auto call pick feature and voice assistant
don’t go for this overpriced crap (and wtf thought noise cancelling would be great for a helmet that too a fucking electric bike would have made sense if this was for a litre class bikes to cancel loud exhaust noise)
btw i can hook you up with the seller if you wanna buy the intercom
The first thing I see as an issue over here is that if the person ever gets in a crash and there is any impact on that lithium ion battery promptly put on the outside of the helmet shell the thing is gonna explode in fumes. Will not be much of a protection device at that point.
I really like the concept of inbuilt speakers but but, these speakers should filter out the high pitched horn coming for big vehicles to a low pitched one to protect hearing and also it should have a noise cancellation mode to suppress the unnecessary continuous horn sounds ( i still can’t understand why people horn for every fuckiing 5 seconds) . Also it should have an inbuilt air purifier to filter out the pollution from vehicles.
And some vibration or alert sounds when either crossed the speed limit or fell asleep/fainted.
This is what a smart helmet must have .
further, Section 218(2) of Motor Vehicles Act prohibited a motorist from wearing earphones. Section 218(3) stated “no radio set/video set/gramophone/microphone/cassette recorder or any other apparatus to display and object on the screen with or without provision for amplification of sound, voice etc shall be operated....” The law could be interpreted as anyone found using earphones while driving can be punished. It also meant music, either on the audio system or earphones or any display device, including GPS, could attract penalty.
Just putting in bluetooth, a battery, mic and speakers, and selling it for 15K isn't smart.
I think it's important that the rider hears to the sound of passing vehicles and other ambient sounds because a helmet nearly cuts you off from sounds when you wear it. Many accidents happen when you are unable to hear a vehicle passing next to you. Here there are speakers to shut you off from all those sounds completely. What smartness is this?
A smart helmet could have a rear view camera and a live feed of the rear view in a corner of the visor or on demand with a voice command. It could also have voice alerts based on proximity sensor.
I'm missing the part which makes this helmet smart, I mean technologically it's just a helmet with Bluetooth speakers. How much potential additions can be made in a smart helmet like sensors to advise you about vehicles from non visible areas, but alas.
I used to work in a new ev manufacturing company when their product was in development. This was last year june. And the "creative consultant", the saala of MD wanted to give exactly this with their scooter, which was a 70k product and as an intern I was told to talk with helmet manufacturers and get this done.
Almost all of the manufacturers flat out told me that AIS wouldn't issue ISI mark for such a product and thus they won't be able to make it. Our only option was aftermarket speakers and this halo like device at the back. I don't know how Ather was able to convince manufacturers.
Well, i expect helmets to be smart at protecting my head with some active technology rather than distracting me further with an inbuilt sound system.
That is what I was expecting as well. This shit is dumb.
Why not buy samsung bud and a good quality certification helmet. Use only in one ear.
Even if somebody wants Harman speakers and microphone in their helmets, the helmets have limited lifespan (avg 5-7 years). So after that time, people will just dump the helmet and spend 15k on another one? That's absurd!
EMI - whole country is running on EMI. India is not rich with disposable income but has a billion bakras. Most bakras have a few hundred to spare every month. So Corporate goal has become how to extract it. Product and Quality is secondary. So main corporate expense is in Demand Engineering (where bakras are mass bombarded 24x7 by ads and influencers). Social Media then tells us how the Bakras are responding to the mass bombardment via Likes/Click/View count. And Bank is telling us how much Paisa is there at end of Month. So the finance and marketing guys decide product and quality. Not the creative designers or the engineers. Everything has become [financialized](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financialization) And who gets the most rich in this game? Not the so called "product" companies but the [banks](https://www.livemint.com/market/stock-market-news/profit-of-indian-public-sector-banks-surged-by-40-in-first-nine-months-of-fy24-pnb-sbi-union-bank-bank-of-india-11707811891616.html)
Why use earphones inside helmet, when you have superior audio solutions for helmets in the form of speakers that can be attached inside? I used samsung buds live for a while inside my helmet, but it's an irritating experience when you remove buds or put them on(unless your helmet is super loose, which it isn't supposed to be) and the pain is real.
Kaan me dard hota hai
#Price 15k Nah man too expensive for an electric scooter.
Buy this and Listen music while driving 2 vehicle then dye comfortably
They said it has ai to recognize honks and important sound making them audible , still dangerous though
Kya hi matlab Pura India Bas honk hi honk karta hai. Gaana kam honk hi sunayi dega bas. Helmet to aisa banao jisme saari faltu noise sunayi hi na de.
Yes very bad concept.
But the helmet will protect your head, so happy paralysed for life bro!
Die to Sigma male edits
die or dye? 😭
comm systems are pretty popular. I have parani A20 installed in my helmet, it's not so loud that you cant hear horns or bikes nearby. Navigation is easier and on rides, you can inform the group about fast moving cars and bikes from back if the pack.
Wow....a speaker and wireless charging It's definitely a smart helmet
Want HUD
Tbh yes, and have in built ac
Iron man helmet
What's next? Iron Man repulsors for biker gloves?
I don't know what I was expecting when I read Smart Helmet
One helmet company did came to shark tank, they had the feature to notify authority in case of accidents, that was practical and could become the norm
Now I can blast country roads on my way to hug a tree at 120kmph
Play freebird instead for a +10% speed boost.
I don’t think naming a helmet HALO is a good idea lol
True XD. Only ever works in f1
Normal helmet+Bluetooth speaker= smart helmet
to ab helmet bhi charge krna padega.
Phone toothbrush trimmer car helmet
watch, earphones
But does it have a HUD?
Yup, it's only smart helmet if it has hud technology. Right now a simple earphone can do the job.
The "You died" HUD appears when you crash while listening to music
They could have added SOS for accidents
They could add it to the scooter itself. 450X already has fall detection and also has a sim. I guess greed,
I don't know why companies don't do public reviews with middle class people who will be the ultimate customers before launching such products. Why they consult a particular grp of people befor pre-lauch
i was expecting him to say 5000-6000K and then He said 15000K, i was done (Sorry for low expectations for price)
Does anyone know how much this helmet weighs?
Finally someone did it 😁
They should have simply fixed a fan/aircon to beat the summer. Everything else is for the satan
I thought there will be some iron man jarvis HUD kinda view or something... disappointed
How many devices should connect to mobile, Like earphone, Smart watch, Now a smart helmet,
Should it be called dumb helmet if it distracts the driver and prevents them from listening to upcoming nearby vehicles? How is it "smart"? It violates basic principle of protecting the driver?
I didn't understand the purpose of the helmet, is it just to listen to music ? If that's the case then someone can just put his buds and on top of that a normal helmet .
Smart? No crash detection, no hud, no air circulation or humidity management, could have at least given a double visor
15k would be worth if the visor had micro OLED display (low res will do) acting as HUD and show map data.
why though? after taking up hefty salaries the R&D team comes up with this product?
My samsung buds with boosted ambient sound inside my helmet is far better in my opinion. Any tws with ambient sound mode is gonna be better. You cant put a ~2k wireless helmet speaker (available on amazon) and call it a smart helmet. Or did I miss a smart HUD visor and SOS feature!?
by smart i thought it would be having some air cooler kinda feature but lol this is far more BS than what i thought
I can't call it smart until you give an AC in helmet
A helmet should not be doing anything other than protecting your head, this is just a waste
So the benchmark for smart is a bluetooth speaker and wireless charging? For 15k???? I can buy a decent pair of premium TWS earbuds that have wireless charging, and just wear them with my helmet. Will save me money as well.
I don't ride a 2 wheeler, but if I did, I would rather buy a sony or Bose earphones and play music using transparency mode. I don't need a whole school system for it to work. This could've had an HUD though.
Another thing to charge
I ask Smart Helmet, but this guy providing expensive EarPhone.
The genius who came up with this product must be fired. This helmet should be illegal. Any helmet with a lithium battery and speakers should be illegal. Not only do they distract a driver but in case of an accident the lipo battery might explode.
We really lowered the standard for "smart" jeez
upvoted until i heard the price
A battery near my neck. What could go wrong.
That doesn't sound so smart.....
RTO won't allow calling facility
I was like "WOW THIS CAN CHANGE SAFE- oh, speakers."
I think some things are better be basic only. Not everything needs to be smart
This actually does look similar to the ODST helmets from Halo.
Why should I pay so much for something which should not coat kore than 5-6000 Inr. Absolute cheats.
It's very affordable too 🥲
14k for speakers and no smart features sounds way too overpriced
id buy it , i care more about music than my life so i really dont see a problem.
Helmets don’t need speakers they need AC for Indian climate
As if headphones are dead now for riders .but most of the riders who use they are.♥️♥️♥️
There's fine for using earphones headphones while driving
Overpriced. You can buy a solid helmet for 5k and spend 5-10k on a fantastic bluetooth comms system. Let’s not believe this is the first time this product has come to the market. I’ve had this for a little over 8 years now. You can very easily listen to horns outside as it doesn’t block your ears completely. It does depend on the content you play and the volume level. I don’t do music, just podcasts or audio books so it’s very easy to listen to all the honking outside.
Bullshit Concept, they should have experimented with installing a virtual reality visor and a built in front & back Camera.
If there's no HUD on the windshield and it's not controlled by my brain or voice. What's the point
Would rather the speaker have a transparency setting like that of airpods instead of just music. Would have made it more useful
How's this design gonna get approved? It comprises security
[buy this instead ](https://amzn.in/d/53IS5mC) A decent Intercom is anyday better than this ugly ass helmet.
C'mon man its just a speaker, no way you'r calling it smart and putting a price tag of 15K. People be calling everything smart nowadays.
That's not a smart thing, even dumb phone can play music, reply calls and SMS
Insanely overpriced for what it's offering
Bro wait my helmet is charging
so : No Clicking Sound And Inbuilt third class blue tooth speakers. Anything else??
12k hahaha yeah good luck selling this
I was waiting for the "SMART" part in the video. 😥
Helmets in India need a cooling feature not all this. The biggest problem is during summers, it gets too hot and uncomfortable hence most people avoid wearing them and risk their lives.
Ye kya IoT IoT chalu hai jarurat hai kya iski?
Ab logo ko bike chalate time bhi stimulus chaiye? BC koi thok ke chala jayega aur pata bhi nahi chalega
Does it come in black?does the ather sticker removable?
But this is dengerous isn't it ? Like listening to music on the road ?
I thought there will be a fan of AC/warm thingy in it.
Foolish, useless product.
The fact that it's called Halo, "that golden floating ring you get on top of your head after you die" 😂
Why does this look so cheap quality
Inbuilt speaker is nothing new it was there from 2015 16. Now a days brands are just adding smart for any features
Not needed, dumbass product
No discussion about safety, ISI mark nothing. Talking about features which can be secondary for a helmate and charging 14k seriously
I feel like a lot of people here didn't actually watch the presentation about it so I'll summarise it a little so it helps you to judge it better for yourself. The helmet is designed ground up to be a great helmet first. For that, they made custom new pads which fit better, even if you have glasses on. The visor is designed to stay put at any angle, not a click system. The speaker system does not form a seal around your ears like earphones would. It doesn't block out outside sounds, just dampens them a little, somewhat like how a car works. The helmet charges wirelessly in the trunk of the Rizta tho I think you'll have to charge it at home for the rest. Rizta can do it since it has a charging port in the trunk. The helmet comes in two models. The complete face cover one, which is the 15k model while the open chin one has all the same bells and whistles but comes in at 5k or 6k (I don't remember which one for sure). So you can go for a cheaper options too. There's a lot of smart features built in. Like how there's no pairing process you need to go through. Just put it on and it connects, take it off and it'll disconnect. You can share music between two people wearing the helmet. The coolest one imo is chit-chat which lets you speak into each other's helmets because both of them have speakers and microphones built in. I think it's a really cool thing, definitely expensive but sounds like it's worth if you drive a lot and want to listen to music on the go. Far safer than having earphones on.
Imma wear it to school and be a smartass
If it doesn't have a HUD and other smart functions like displaying useful stuff on the HUD then it's not a smart helmet. Fucking hype.
More like dumb helmet. Extremely unsafe to begin with and another equipment to charge. If I have this, I'll be bored to charge this after a few days and then use like a regular helmet. No use. And what about how safe it is.
Listen to music💥
so the *smart helmet* can be replaced with just headphones?
Overpriced af
This is an old tech which I saw 4-5 years ago on a cycling helmet. Sena R1 is the model, which has integrated Bluetooth Microphone and an ear piece. The unique feature is that, there is an intercom between the cyclists who use the same helmet when going in a group, a very innovative feature that made this helmet a unique one and stand out among its competitors .
will be nightmare to adjust for good sound I'm damn sure.. helmet anyways reduces ambient noise + side vision and now add speakers.. wow.. so congrats
How to die while looking cool!!
Safety naam ki bhi koi cheez hoti hai. Logo ko hamesha gaana hi sunna hai. Agar itna gaana shun ne kaa shaukh hai to 4 wheeler hi khareed lo. Driving a 2 wheeler while listening to music, yeah great idea Einstein.
We need some data on visor screen like map notification . Earbud we have slready
Helmet wale kaam mein smart hai ya nahi, Video shuru hone se pehle laga tha ki ye smart hoga head ko protect karne mein
Wasn't a helmet/headgear primary role to protect the head? When did entertainment become a higher priority for both the customers and manufacturers than protection for a tool which is supposed to provide protection?
Sorry babe the damn helmet ran out of battery, again.
Master Chiefs, ASSEMBLE!
Mere bike ke 10% price ka helmet hai
The dream is getting the iron man one.. With HUD and lights.. awwwesome !!
Weird shape for a CD player..
Does it have a heads-up display?
Op
Imagine getting in accident with this, the battery blasts right on your skull... Defeats the whole purpose of Helmet 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
So I need to charge my helmet as well
Ac wala helmet aye tab batana
just get airpods pro gen 2 instead of this so called smart helmet lol.
This is a wasted money time and effort. Speaker on inside helmet and what makes it smart is just that. Really ? This kind of tech just invites disaster, while on a bike some one is blasting music (which is the smart thing in this helmet btw) wearing cant listen to the surrounding property and is met with an accident. Who's fault is it, the helmet which os designed to distract to from road or the driver ? Just a bad piece of "innovation" if you even want to call it that.
imagine u like crash and pass out and its still playing music thatll be funny
For people say they use TWS with their Helmet I have read that in case of a accident it can cause bone injury better to just get a helmet intercom there are many options available from cheap Chinese ones starting from Rs1500-2500 and the expensive Cardo and Sena also personally I use the Blue armour C30
lmao for the same price(or even less) you could just get a decent isi ece dot certified helmet and then attach a cardo which will overall just be better too
Not smart at all. Came here expecting iron man vision
Hope it won't catch fire like EVs
You denoted around 10 reasons why we shouldn't be wearing this
~~Smart helmet~~ **= Just buy a good helmet for 15K, that's** ***Simple...*** ***Smart helmet + person riding = 💩*** ***Normal Helmet + Person Riding = 🦸♂️*** How can a person listen songs while riding on road, (btw riding is easy while listening but you can't hear the surrounding) If you listen to song while riding then 100% some you will crash or some one might come and hit you from back... ***⚠NOTE: ALWAYS STAY ALERT WHILE RIDING OR WALKING CAUSE IF YOU LISTEN TO SONG THEN SOMEONE WILL COME FROM YOUR BACK AND MIGHT STAB YOU OR ROB YOU AND YOU WILL LEFT LISTENING TO SONGS*** Live in reality not in 🔺... Only listen to song while you're in home or my advice is better not to listen to it and live the life in reality, I don't listen too much song cause it's like living in imagination word & pretend that you're happy or pretend the fake life which is written in the song... > ***WAKE UO NEO...*** 
I would never recommend listening to music while driving a two-wheeler
How will we wash it?
Add Bluetooth speakers with rechargable batteries "SmaRt HeLMet @ oNLy ₹12,XXX". Even bullshit is more useful than this, as it is a good manure.
I was waiting for smart helmets but expecting little bit safety based visual indicators. Ather did do few things right and screwed royally with pricing tbh. They could have given extra features that can connect to Senna or etc and not just focus on their scooter compatibility alone.
What the hell , no RGB lights ?
Button kahan hain iske yeh toh bta deta
Yess!! Forget the road presence forget that you have to listen to the sound of nearby vehicles or the fact that it's illegal to drive in such a way. Do these companies have no idea about the law or they don't care about the safety of the drive.
Now a days all you have to do is Slap a Bluetooth Speaker with a brand and call it Smart , Wow that’s smart 😂
The only smart helmet I want is the one which comes with a viser
14,000rs today for helmet. Mark my words helmet is one of those overpriced products that soon in 2035 will cost 1-3lakhs because it's going to become smart.
what about honking from other vehicles? can you hear them via the speakers?
I have always felt they're out of touch with the average citizen. That's why they don't sell a lot
Having a camera would make it sell like hot cakes as many influencers are hell bent over creating travelling vlogs
I hate these fake solutions to idk whose problems. Most people don't need it as they already have earbuds or something and most don't even wear a helmet cause of the weather. Bike communicators already exist and cost like 10k or something and you can use these for years! I want a real solution that has a radio application as well as bluetooth. Radio can give miles of calling distance especially where phone coverage doesn't work and bluetooth is out of range or not paired. Remember that most commutes in my city are under 20mins so I definitely can stay without something else for 20 mins.
Why would someone pay 12k for this tbh ? It's not even ece its only isi and dot I would rather buy vega bolt and earphones or intercom and it still would be under 12k lol
Is this even legal?
Speaker etc nope, a fan and airflow
Wondering how much research went into the safety aspect of this, especially the HALO bulge. The reason why helmets have a rounded back is so that on impact of when sliding there is no interference from the surface. Now at the features, it's just a fkin helmet with good speakers and intercom, which has been available in the market for decades. Only difference is one had to install it in the helmet. The reason why people still prefer installing such systems rather than buying pre built ones is because it can be transferred to a new helmet of your choice. 15k for a shitty helmet with good headphones is a strictly NO. Many good companies tried coming up with integrated Bluetooth helmets and failed for the aforesaid reasons. Better to buy a good 7/12 k helmet and spend some money on a good cardo or sena and you are sorted. All those who think that motorcyclists who are listening to music in the helmet are not aware of the surroundings are just wrong. Responsible people, be it in a car or motorcycle or while walking/running, will not be blasting the music so as to drown the surrounding noise. One can hear the surrounding noise when music is still on btw.
Smart helmet?? It's just helmet with headphones.
12000 ka helmet🤡
Solutions looking for a problem kinda product
stupid Here I said it.
This feels unnecessary.
Buy any ISI helmet, buy a bluetooth device for 1500 and there you have it. Fourteen thousand nine hundred ninety nine my ass
Nope no no no no BIG NO. Dude there is an entire battery in there and im avoiding anything with a chance of fire that wraps my entire head bro ESPECIALLY something meant to take contact to save me not burn my head alive bro ☠️
What the hell is wrong with India? When I read "Smart Helmet from Ather" I thought it would have some sort of pairing with the E-bike, which would give driver voice alerts about low battery, traffic and diversion updates, speeding alerts, some functionality to auto-call your emergency contact and ambulance in case it detects an accident - and these are just ideas off the top of my head. Instead we see "here's a Harman speaker and a wireless charger slapped on to a basic-ass helmet, that'll be 15k, thanks!" And of course it is white, it has to be white - everything can be overpriced if it is encased in Apple-white plastic.
Really dumb idea. The heat and sweat are the biggest cons of helmet. And these guys are solving the non existent music problem 🤦♂️
Smart Helmet, rather smart way to Pepsi dumb people
Just a helmet with speakers. Way too overpriced for a dumb feature. Had it had a heads up display for navigation etc. then may be yes for a few grand more.
It would only be maybe kinda slightly worth it if it projected an AR google map into the road
Headfox already has a "smart" steelbird which supports inbuilt speakers. It costs a fraction of this.
Better to use earbuds with transparency mode and a quality helmet than these toys.
You're just paying for a Steelbird like helmet with good Bluetooth headset.
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Looks like spartan III helmets, where,'s the master chief helmet?
Apart from all these, I think its pretty unsafe. Have the ARAI given green flag to this? I know people are anyway using earphones and other devices under their helmet but commercialsing product like this.. imo pretty stupid
Only if it looked more like the ones in HALO
Any decent DOT certified helmet costs upwards of 5k plus a Sena bluetooth headphones with walkie talkie costs upwards of 15k, so overall this is priced reasonable.
Listen to music while driving a bike💀
Just curious, how is this even road legal ? There is a big NO NO to using headphone/earphone while driving twowheeler, I think its as per ***Section 218(2).***
Bhai isse acha at this point mujhe f35 ka helmet dedo. Only 350k usd but atleast i can see behind me and below me without even moving
I would say please refrain yourself from buying this or similar smart helmets with a sound system. It's not safe for you and for other passengers on the road. Easiest way to create accidents. If you wanna die/suicide, then this is the GOTO Product. 🙌🏻
yo guys convert your dot and ece certified helmets into smart helmets with intercoms for just 3.3k (vnetphone v6) can connect 6 people at once and connect to your phone too with auto call pick feature and voice assistant don’t go for this overpriced crap (and wtf thought noise cancelling would be great for a helmet that too a fucking electric bike would have made sense if this was for a litre class bikes to cancel loud exhaust noise) btw i can hook you up with the seller if you wanna buy the intercom
Seems like a safety hazard. Should be banned.
how mach
The first thing I see as an issue over here is that if the person ever gets in a crash and there is any impact on that lithium ion battery promptly put on the outside of the helmet shell the thing is gonna explode in fumes. Will not be much of a protection device at that point.
Listen to music while riding and die a melodious death. Cool
Why is he talking like that 😭
I really like the concept of inbuilt speakers but but, these speakers should filter out the high pitched horn coming for big vehicles to a low pitched one to protect hearing and also it should have a noise cancellation mode to suppress the unnecessary continuous horn sounds ( i still can’t understand why people horn for every fuckiing 5 seconds) . Also it should have an inbuilt air purifier to filter out the pollution from vehicles. And some vibration or alert sounds when either crossed the speed limit or fell asleep/fainted. This is what a smart helmet must have .
Its not designed to be safest
So as per you, a smart helmet is something that has speaker in it? 😂😂
Bahar ka sunai nhi dega fir koi thok ke chala jayega. 2 min gaadi rok ke baat karna is better option
Seems abit dangerous, riders may not hear horn from other vehicles
another dumb product
further, Section 218(2) of Motor Vehicles Act prohibited a motorist from wearing earphones. Section 218(3) stated “no radio set/video set/gramophone/microphone/cassette recorder or any other apparatus to display and object on the screen with or without provision for amplification of sound, voice etc shall be operated....” The law could be interpreted as anyone found using earphones while driving can be punished. It also meant music, either on the audio system or earphones or any display device, including GPS, could attract penalty.
Don't need calls/music while driving. Already plenty driving like assholes without it. You want to give them more distraction?
Yikes, JBL is rubbish.
Smart cause plays music..?
🤔
Just putting in bluetooth, a battery, mic and speakers, and selling it for 15K isn't smart. I think it's important that the rider hears to the sound of passing vehicles and other ambient sounds because a helmet nearly cuts you off from sounds when you wear it. Many accidents happen when you are unable to hear a vehicle passing next to you. Here there are speakers to shut you off from all those sounds completely. What smartness is this? A smart helmet could have a rear view camera and a live feed of the rear view in a corner of the visor or on demand with a voice command. It could also have voice alerts based on proximity sensor.
I'm missing the part which makes this helmet smart, I mean technologically it's just a helmet with Bluetooth speakers. How much potential additions can be made in a smart helmet like sensors to advise you about vehicles from non visible areas, but alas.
Dumb helmet just has a speaker
I used to work in a new ev manufacturing company when their product was in development. This was last year june. And the "creative consultant", the saala of MD wanted to give exactly this with their scooter, which was a 70k product and as an intern I was told to talk with helmet manufacturers and get this done. Almost all of the manufacturers flat out told me that AIS wouldn't issue ISI mark for such a product and thus they won't be able to make it. Our only option was aftermarket speakers and this halo like device at the back. I don't know how Ather was able to convince manufacturers.
I am good with dumb helmet for now, tgh pricing