Comment on Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths

• magnetosphere@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m going to repeat what I said to another user:

  Do you seriously think I was talking about slowing down abruptly enough to hurt people? Do you understand that it’s possible to slow down just by cutting power to the motor and coasting to a stop? Have you ever ridden a bicycle or driven a car?

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  • fathog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You shouldn’t be so rude when you’re just dead wrong

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  • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    you move forward by leaning forward. The board’s acceleration counteracts the leaning while driving you forward in the process. If it stopped suddenly, the front end would suddenly lean too far forward and hit the ground.

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  • redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Due to the board’s, uh, ingenious one wheel design, when you lean forward, the motor must accelerate forward to counteract the force and keep self-balancing. Same with leaning backyard, the motor must accelerate backward (either slowing down or reversing) to keep you balanced. So, if you’re already leaning forward, it’s physically impossible for the board to decelerate without losing its self-balancing properties. In addition to that, if the motor is already on its peak speed and can’t accelerate any further, if you lean forward even more, the motor won’t have enough spare acceleration in order to counteract it and keep self-balancing, leading to crash. The firmware update seems to add some buzz/vibration to alert the rider when the motor is near its limit.

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