Comment on Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths
Zak@lemmy.world 1 year agoThis 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”.
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.
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.
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.