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Onewheels are self-balancing electric skateboards. They have a sensor on the footpad that activates the motor while you’re standing on it. For quite a while the manufacturer of the boards was having an issue where the sensor would stay stuck on, so when you stepped/fell off the board it would just take off under it’s on power until it ran into something and broke or lost its balance and tipped over. The manufacturer kept denying and denying and denying and gaslighting. Then after enough negative press from people like Louis Rossman and a lady that got sent to the hospital after a board slammed into her, the US government stepped in and threatened to shut down the company if they didn’t acknowledge and fix the issue so they finally did something about it.
Oh I see the way you phrases it confused me lol. I have one, that would scare the shit out of me 😂