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Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths::Future Motion, along with the CPSC, is recalling 300,000 Onewheel self-balancing skateboards. Four crash deaths were reported, and the company resisted recall last year.

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[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It looks to me like the article is about boards malfunctioning.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Some crashes occurred due to Onewheel skateboards malfunctioning after being pushed to certain limits.

You: my car malfunctioned after going 150mph, it’s the car’s fault.

The solution was to add a more obvious warning, that can still be ignored.

You’ll hear whatever you want to hear though, and it has no effect on me.

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Me: "My car malfunctioned while going some undisclosed and possibly reasonable speed. It's bad that it malfunctioned, and the product would be safer for everyone if it didn't do that."

I haven't seen anything to suggest that the victims were all behaving excessively recklessly, as in your "driving 150mph" example. "Certain limits" is pretty vague, and based on context, sound like they pertain more to hardware constraints than to dangerous behavior.