It's crazy how people only noticed that Onewheels are dangerous after a bunch of out of shape tech bros started buying them and treating them like toys.
They don't randomly stop, they're just inherently dangerous unless operated correctly.
Thanks for the huge laugh. "Unless operated correctly"... ha! Like that is something anyone can predict.
"Tech bro" Casey [0] [1] just did the NY Marathon [2]... he's not out of shape.
There are countless more videos on YT too [3] [4]. Heck, there are even little wheels you can buy to kind of try to help with the superman issues. Don't forget ghosting too.
No thanks. Enjoy your toy. I hope you don't get hurt.
I'm sure I could find videos of people falling off of snowboards and bikes too, so I don't find accident compilations particularly compelling. Especially since I can tell you in pretty much every instance exactly what they did wrong.
Generally speaking if you don't have a background in boardsports it's probably safest to avoid powered boards altogether, no matter how many wheels they have.
Certainly, I can find people walking and falling down too. Heck, drinking water can be dangerous if you do it enough.
The point, which you're glossing over, is that this is a new company, there is only one of them and they have some seriously dangerous and well documented issues with their product, beyond just using it.
Just like the OP's comment that I'm responding to.
I have an Oru Inlet and I'd say 8 minutes is generous. The actual unfolding and assembly of the kayak is more like 3-5 minutes once you have the process down. Though I understand the larger/more elaborate models can take a little longer.
This is the real issue. People don't read the instructions and push the board out of its safety envelope, then they crash, get angry, and complain about it online.
I've read hundreds of crash reports, and never seen more than a handful that weren't a direct result of the user's actions. Actual system failures are vanishingly rare, and most nosedives are only as bad as they are because the rider is traveling at an unsafe speed and has not invested in the training or equipment to fall safely.
All self-balancing vehicles have the same failure mode -- that you can exceed their ability to catch you by leaning too far forwards.
The Segway benefits from having a big pole it can jab the rider with to make them learn back. But it's entirely possible to nosedive one if you try hard enough.
Disagree. All the warnings suggest rider error. I suspect that if they published, "We've determined that, on average, approximately once every N miles, a onewheel is likely to briefly fail to deliver power to its motor, throwing its rider at whatever speed it's moving," they would sell far fewer of these items.
Yeah but that’s not the case. You see a lot of the injuries because people on Reddit and YouTube and discord like to show them off, but in grand scheme of things most of these riders will tell you they were being idiots (like riding drunk at night, pushing 30 down a hill, trying to hop curbs at speed, ignoring pushback, etc), and many hop back on their board as soon as they can. The few that weren’t being idiots, well a fraction were lousy or inattentive riders and some fraction suffered a failure. What you’re not seeing is all the riders and boards with zero problems.
This could 100% be done in software -- it's already adjusting the wheel speed a thousand times a second, it would be trivial to add some haptic oscillation.
This is absolutely the case. When Onewheels were new they were mostly ridden by people who came from other boardsports. They knew the danger and treated them with the due respect, including taking the time to learn how to properly operate them.
In the last couple of years they've been wholesale adopted by techies who treat them like toys. The consequences are inevitable.
That caught my eye as well. If I wanted to buy some agricultural land in my state and convert it to industrial manufacturing, I would be mired in red tape for years.
It's inconvenient but it's not like you lose any data.