My sister broke her arm immediately upon trying to use a onewheel
Comment on Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Are they going to recall all of the clones that are out there, too? All of these one-wheel “hoverboards” are super dangerous and nobody seems to care.
It’s not like a skateboard or bike, where propelling the vehicle is all controlled by your body, or easy to find controls on a bike. A electric scooter has controls on the handle. These hoverboards are controlled by merely standing on them, and it’s way too easy to try to stand on it and immediately break a leg or arm as it flies off away from you. You can’t just turn it on and off as you’re trying to stand on it.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Zak@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This recall seems to be in response to a software bug that causes it to spontaneously shut down, leading to a crash. Competing products probably don’t have the same bug.
That’s unrelated to any inherent risk in riding one. There is certainly inherent risk in riding an electric unicycle/skateboard hybrid, which is obvious to most people upon reading the phrase “electric unicycle/skateboard hybrid”.
Endorkend@kbin.social 1 year ago
The sudden stop issue has been known for as long as these things existed and it's taken until a bunch of people died for them to do anything about it.
SineSwiper@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Getting on one of those things before you’re ready is almost as bad as suddenly stopping. My wife broke her arm after trying to show my son how it works, and I know co-workers with similar stories, including head injuries.
Immediately took the damn thing back.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
They at least claim that the software “bug” they are fixing on the newer boards with the update is only to implement a (better?) warning system as the crashes happen when you push the board too hard and it can’t keep up, causing it to nosedive or shut off completely due to overload. If you ride it sensibly, that shouldn’t be an issue.
Asking people to scrap the old boards just because they cant get a warning system does kinda sound like there actually is some deeper issue they don’t want to disclose though.