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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] 1 points 1 year ago

You have to be creeping up on 20MPH and still in a heavy forward lean for the system to hard fail like that.

Wait so this particular failure mode occurs if you're in a forward lean when it approaches its top speed? And as soon as it isn't able to push hard enough to offset the lean the front dips so that it catches the edge and the rider flips off of it?

If simply exceeding the top speed leads to catastrophic failure, and there's literally no way to safely engineer in a speed limiter, that's an inherently dangerous design.