Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths
Aside: if anyone&#x27;s trying to talk someone they care about out of purchasing something like this, I suggest tricking them into getting a skateboard first. I think that would ground most people in reality. Fuck around enough at low speed in less-than-lethal environments, you&#x27;ll get onto a first-name basis with Newtonian Physics, and it&#x27;ll clarify, on a viscerally intuitive level, what these types of machines are <i>really</i> about.<p>The first thought that comes to my mind looking at this device is &quot;these are <i>failure-is-not-an-option</i> situations&quot;. There&#x27;s many ways to fall off a skateboard without dying, and to me it&#x27;s <i>viscerally</i> obvious, absolutely none of them will ever apply here. You can&#x27;t recover onto your feet, because these lithium-battery things are like 300% faster than your top sprinting speed. You can&#x27;t fall onto your arms either, because your inertial speed is faster than your autonomous reflexes. (You learn <i>all</i> about your autonomous reflexes). It&#x27;s just your face, and skull. This is the first thought that comes to mind: there&#x27;s no way to bail, 0% chance. It&#x27;s just completely not-an-option to fail on such a device at cruising speed. And I&#x27;m grounded enough to realize, I&#x27;m not a person who never fails physical feats. That&#x27;s not what a human is.