• JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
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    10 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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      10 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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        10 days ago

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