The web is filled with proficient engineers and designers constructing every kind of bizarre automobiles that, fairly frankly, look completely terrifying to climb aboard. Like The Q’s self-balancing skateboard, paying homage to the Onewheel, however constructed round a beefy Formula 1 wheel.

The Onewheel skateboard, so named as a result of it rides alongside on a single wheel in the course of the deck that’s assisted by a self-balancing electrical motor, has just lately been within the information, however not for causes its creators would really like. Earlier this month, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission urged riders to cease utilizing all of Future Motion’s Onewheel electrical skateboard fashions after 4 reported deaths over the previous three years, in addition to a number of severe accidents.

Future Motion has known as the CPSC’s statements, “unjustified and alarmist,” whereas boards throughout the web are crammed with customers each defending the Onewheel skateboards as being secure when used correctly, and sharing tales of the intense accidents they’ve sustained whereas using them. If there’s one factor that everybody can agree on, it’s that this practice Formula 1 self-balancing skateboard ought to in all probability by no means be made out there to shoppers.

That’s to not say this isn’t a formidable construct. Although The Q, a YouTube channel that has been making {custom} creations for years (all the things from a cardboard soda vending machine to a bicycle with a split rear wheel) by no means explains intimately the way it builds its creations, it seems like this time they salvaged the electrical motor and self-balancing mechanism from a two-wheeled hoverboard.

That explains why this practice self-balancing skateboard rolls alongside at such a leisurely tempo, at the very least in comparison with a few of the official Onewheel gadgets, which may hit a high pace of just about 19 miles per hour. It’s somewhat under-powered, however given the scale of that wheel and the way awkward this contraption seems to trip, gradual and regular might be the most secure method right here.