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Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths (www.theverge.com)

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Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths::Future Motion, along with the CPSC, is recalling 300,000 Onewheel self-balancing skateboards. Four crash deaths were reported, and the company resisted recall last year.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The onewheel seems like a personal-mobility answer to the V22 Osprey: a vehicle with amazing functionality and versatility in its happy path, but is fundamentally unsafe in failure because of the basic physics of the situation. If it ever even momentarily loses power, the nose drops and bites the asphalt and the rider goes flying.