Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths
by Umar Shakir from The Verge - All Posts on (#6F68K)
Onewheel at CES in 2015. | Image: The Verge Future Motion, the maker of the Onewheel electric skateboard, is recalling every one of them, including 300,000 Onewheel self-balancing vehicles in the US. Alongside the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the company now seeks to remedy the products after four known death cases - three without a helmet - between 2019 and 2021.
The recall comes a year after Future Motion took issue with the CPSC's calls for recall and claimed that it tested and found nothing wrong with the Onewheels. At the time, the company issued a press release in objection to the CPSC and called the agency's statements unjustified and alarmist."
Now Future Motion is moving forward with a voluntary recall it chose not to do almost a year earlier. The...