Safety

A simple rule:

 "If we can't drive it safely, no one should,

and if our child can't drive it safely, no child should."

 

 

Safety point 1: Peaceful Ride with Stabilized State of Balance

Today's common personal transporters have either two wheels or only one, meaning the number of points of contacting with the road surface is either 2 points or less, which cannot provide a stable state of balance.

 

Our design, although has one wheel, produces a ride with a total of 3 points of contact with the road when combined with the 2 legs of the rider wearing the skates, forming a tripod-like structure resulting in a stable state of balance that greatly helps preventing the rider from falling accidents, because the rider is continuously leveraging on the handle for keeping balance.

 

Safety point 2: Moving the Rider out of the Vehicle Space

Vehicle space is the area enclosing a vehicle, from the front to the rear, and side to side.

It's easy to realize that in 99% of common personal transporters, the rider is located either between the wheels (for example, a bike), or located directly on top of the wheels axle (of a hoverboard, Segway, or mono-wheel), meaning the rider is always present within the vehicle space during the ride.

This poses danger to the rider in case of an accident, because any impact to the vehicle will be directly transferred to the rider.

To solve this issue, our design puts the rider far behind the transporter, completely outside the vehicle space, within a safety zone properly distanced from the vehicle.

Therefore, any impact to the vehicle will not affect the rider, who can also separate from the vehicle quickly if needed, simply by releasing the steering handle.

 

Health

Is there a relation between obesity and the new generation of personal transporters? Do you get enough physical activity and burn enough calories when riding an electric transporter?

Although electric vehicles are clean and good for the environment, using them does not necessarily improve the health of riders; in fact they could do the opposite.

When a common personal transporter becomes motorized, it reduce the rider's physical activity, almost to none. Some transporters (like hoverboards) even deny a rider the very basic physical activities such as walking.

Few years back, skateboarding or riding a bicycle was a good way of exercise and burn some calories, but now they are motorized and the riders can drive them with minimal interaction like pressing a button to accelerate, instead of using feet to kick the ground to push the skateboard forward, or just leaning forward to drive a hoverboard.

Our approach was to design a vehicle that does not disconnect the rider from performing normal physical activities, therefore we designed an "aid" that will still require riders bodily actions to move, but allows the rider to perform more with the same amount of energy, such as going a longer distance and getting to the destination faster, while still burning enough calories. 

 

 

 

Fun

Joring is an exciting sport that allows the rider on roller skates being tugged and pulled in a controlled manner, going fast or slow, and experience new body movements in respond to the vehicle behavior, and is pure fun.

The experience is very different from other sports because the rider is placed far behind the wheel where there is enough space on the sides, allowing the rider to maneuver independently and have the freedom of moving to the left and right or perform zigzag and even dance while being pulled forward.