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The Onewheel seems so obviously dangerous. Any vehicle that dumps its passenger when losing power eventually will. It’s just a matter of cycles before the lithium ion battery starts dying fast.

While it seems like a simple mitigation could be to make the “pushback” mechanism more obvious (i.e. slowly decrease the top speed as the battery loses power), it makes me wonder what’s the point? Can’t we let Darwinism do it’s thing here?



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