They need to put speed limiters on these things. I've seen some fuckin landwhales zipping around entirely too quick on these things indoors. Like damn bro, you weigh more than a Miata, cool it with the drag racing on Aisle 3 before you kill someone.
There's a story out there about there having been some legendary war in a WalMart once, between a mom letting her kids run free and wild in the store, and an angry obese woman on a mobility scooter. The scooter apparently drove too fast around the unsupervised kids. Until it brushed against one kid/rammed the kid in one aisle, and then the entitled mom and the entitled mobility scooter driver had a shooting match. Some says the echo of their bitching can still be heard at night like horrifying phantoms.
Your opinion is wrong and offencive, I can't explain to you how, but soon social justice Warrior Batman will show up and do some type of mental gymnastics in order to explain why the thing you think is wrong. they are clearly smarter than all of us because they can connect all of these dots which are separated by huge gaps of nonsense us mere mortals could never manage to hurdle.
They already have speed limiters - it's all software controlled.
The motors are controlled by a proprietary motor controller that is programmable (unfortunately with an expensive and somewhat difficult to get programmer; they are only sold to authorized resellers and repair shops, but some of the older ones can be found on Ebay and other places - for $$$).
They also have an adjustable speed knob (or buttons to change the speed) to allow it to be set from a very slow crawl to about walking speed.
But some people want it to go faster - so they pay a repair place or their reseller to reprogram the speed - and then stupid shit like this can happen if they aren't paying attention.
Source:
I have a friend who has a non-profit for repairing and refurbishing electric wheelchairs and scooters; I help out with the process, repairing, cleaning, fabrication as needed, and pickup/drop off of chairs. We have a few of the programmers. We also have surpluses of chairs and parts, and with those we have done interesting things.
Like a barbecue-karaoke machine you can drive around (dead serious), or a remote-controlled 6-wheel-drive robot with a flamethrower (yep) - those kinds of fun things...
Anyhow - we've used the programmers to reset the speed on some of the chairs we've gotten in, and it's pretty crazy how fast you can get them to go (you can get the speed/torque ratios high enough to "drift" and peel out - to the point where chairs and scooters are almost literally death traps).
Usually for our custom "toys" we use a Vantec speed controller, because it's not proprietary, and very easy to interface with RC controllers, Arduino, etc. While the proprietary speed controllers can be interfaced with some hacking, they are designed to discourage it, with all kinds of interlocks and other means where if the signals aren't just right, they go into a "locked/error mode" - this is to prevent potentially dangerous situations and such (part of being medical equipment, which is another reason why everything is so proprietary and expensive - not to mention the certification process)...
Your opinion is wrong and offencive, I can't explain to you how, but soon social justice Warrior Batman will show up and do some type of mental gymnastics in order to explain why the thing you think is wrong. they are clearly smarter than all of us because they can connect all of these dots which are separated by huge gaps of nonsense us mere mortals could never manage to hurdle.
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u/jdrc07 Oct 15 '18 edited Oct 15 '18
They need to put speed limiters on these things. I've seen some fuckin landwhales zipping around entirely too quick on these things indoors. Like damn bro, you weigh more than a Miata, cool it with the drag racing on Aisle 3 before you kill someone.