“At the time, the company issued a press release in objection to the CPSC and called the agency’s statements “unjustified and alarmist.””
Future Motion is recalling 300,000 Onewheels a year after it fought the CPSC’s call for exactly this recall. Newer boards get a firmware buzz that warns riders they are near the limit. Owners of the original Onewheel and Onewheel Plus are told to throw theirs away, and they get a $100 credit toward a new board only after proving they did. Four riders died, and the remedy for the survivors is a coupon.