• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I can’t work out how this thing operates as a skateboard. How the fuck do you turn without bottoming the rail things out every time? take silly wide shallow turns?

    how the fuck do you write this much about a design when it obviously doesn’t work as the thing it’s intended to be?

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      4 days ago

      It turns the wheels, based on this image. It’s not a skateboard, it’s an rc car you stand on top of.

      And if you look at that image for more than a second, you’ll see that it’s just car parts scaled down to a scale that wouldn’t be physically possible. That brace caliper assembly is the size of a thumbnail.

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        4 days ago

        Even if that system could work reliably, it would handle worse than a normal skateboard and those weird… I don’t know, fenders I guess? Whatever they are, they’d pose a serious hazard for catching on debris.

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          4 days ago

          and curbs, and cracks, and leaves and god knows what else… designed to fling the rider violently away from the deck