While it's only a prototype, an electric bicycle enabled with smart technology is a turn away from cars by Ford Motor Company.

Surely Ford isn't betting its future on two wheels, but the experiment shows that car company is interested in more than autos. As an article on CityLab suggests, the venerable car maker likely anticipates a shift in urban transportation in coming years .

"Ford is also looking at bikes as a kind of urban sensory organ, a vehicle that moves around the city in a unique way, offering opportunities to collect data and improve the understanding of how urban streets work for cars and bikes alike," the article says. "So far the sensors have been installed on a limited number of bikes, but the experiment will be scaling up. The goal, says Aich, is to better understand how bicycles move in the 'urban ecosystem.'”

Would you ride a Ford bike? Can a car maker, say like Peugeot, even design a good bike?