Future Transportation

17/05/2020

08/05/2020

Legalisation of e-scooters part of government’s wider plan for ‘transport revolution’

22/12/2019

The quality and design of the Urmo belongs in the future. The portability and usability of this Segway type hover board is off the chart.

Typical Hoverboards small wheels means they are likely to get stuck in small holes.

The Urmo's 14” wheel diameter means the possibility of flipping over when you hit a hole makes it among the safest hover-board/ Segway devices. It also surpass 99% of scooters wheel diameter, making it safer than scooters.

The weight (6.5kg) also makes it lighter than the lightest unicycle wheel devices like the IPS i5 7.9kg. It folds into a 18cm wide package.

The 900W per wheel is mind boggling, yes that 1800W! In each of those wheels there is an electro motor in it. How is it possible?

The only thing that we have concerns about is that 280Whr range. They compromised on the battery system, and it has repercussions which are going to cause many not to buy it as many of their competitors products beat it. Most people look at baic metrics, top speed and range and will write it off.

The 280Whr is on the low site it means the unicycle only has about 24 batteries. This means most likely has a total AMP discharge rate of 240AMPS, this is too low for a rock solid sturdy experience. Also the battery system is likely to be 43V For safety reasons or concerns being able to maintain stability, it is rate limited to 15km/hr, when this beast should be able to do 35km/hr. We think that whilst this model will be OK for people weighting less than 70kg. They really need to ramp the number of batteries and get the Whr in the 400+ range and have at least 40 Cells of 20AMPs each. This would increase range, stability and be able to bring the top speed to 25km/hr. I think they need to change the battery or the body and increase the cell count.

It costs about HK$11,500 on the kickstarter and given the tech in it compared to what is inside your Gotway it is a bargain.

Urmo Kickstarter is still in progress...

Self-balancing scooter with a patent-pending folding mechanism by ex-Tesla and ex-BMW engineers. | Check out 'UrmO: Ultra-light, foldable urban electric vehicle' on Indiegogo.

16/12/2019

In the same way people are allowed to identify themselves as what ever gender they like, PMD riders should be able to do the same. 😅Unicycle riders should identifying themselves as pedestrians and scooter riders as cyclists. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 That would solve all regulation issues.

15/12/2019

The Singapore Unicycle Community needs our support. Please sign this petition to keep Unicycles on Foot paths legal in Singapore. Transportation Departments around the world copy one another, we need to win in each country together, and we should all support one another regardless of what country you are in. Strength in numbers. Scooters have been banned on the footpaths unicycles are still legal are under review. Please sign, help your country, help Singapore.

..the dust has almost settled down with the escooter fiasco footpath ban ! But guys please continue to ride with extra care during these trial period that LTA has grant EUC and hoverboard the special privilege to ride on footpath despite escooter ban..let us all practice self governance in riding ou...

13/12/2019

The Unicycle is many ways in its infancy. We are going what the cars went through in the 1950's where bigger is better. Smaller is better will become more important in the future when community using light vehicles will matter. One of the issues unicycles have is battery capacity. There are many inventions yet to be created on unicycles including Removable batteries, which would allow to extend range as required. The now defunct UK Uniwheel has replaceable battery packs, which we hope to see in the future. The design does look like it would hurt legs though...

08/12/2019

There are business and environmental reasons why short haul flights should be avoided, and replaced by high speed trains where I available such reducing the carbon emissions by to 1/16th. When things are scaled down further to the unicycle/personal transport scale the energy consumption reduction of a person in a petrol car is a reduction 1/75th

Believe it or not, airlines would rather you go by train versus a plane for some trips. Find out why air-rail alliances can make business, environmental and travel sense.

07/12/2019

Bike Lanes maybe what the TD has planned for HK's future. We doubt that pedestrians in congested areas in HK will respect them, In the same way that pedestrians are forced to jay walk pedestrians will consciously risk walking into the bike lanes and make them useless. Pedestrians and bikes/unicycles will be again in the same place. The same problem we are trying to address with our proposal, ensuring that pedestrians are treated with respect will remain. The only solution to this is to put unicycles on pavements and teach riders to respect pedestrians. A multi personal vehicle strategy will fail.

THE PROBLEM TD HAS TO DEAL WITH IS THE LACK OF RESPECT AND CONSIDERATION.

You can't just put some road markings and some fences that separate pedestrians and personal mobility device riders, bikes, cars and hope will respect one another. The strategy should be to reward those that are respectful of others and punish those that are not.

In our proposal we have propose“we will train up, we will behave and respect of pedestrians, if you let us ride on pavements in HK”

Whilst the current car/pedestrian is not perfect adding a new space like bike lanes without a way of being able to enforce respect and consideration will only lead to accidents and nuisance. A single person, will be given so much power to influence others with little risk to himself, especially car drivers. Bike lanes will not punish fairly. Those that misbehave will walk away without a scratch and good commuters, will be killed like the 18 that died on bike lanes in NYC in the past year.

05/12/2019

18650's are presently the main way of powering most electrical vehicles, particularly those used in personal mobility. This comparison looks at the highest capacity batteries in the market and their performance. Overall they behave the same. When choosing batteries the mAh capacity (the total capacity of the cell), should be considered as well as the Amp continuous discharge rate. On most electric the mAh is key however on vehicles which require fast discharge rates (unicycles), for responsiveness, the AMP discharge rate is crucial and 10A may not be enough.

Top 3500mAh 18650 Li-ion batteries' discharge test. Text/image version of this review: http://www.thunderheartreviews.com/2018/08/3500mah-18650-li-ion-cells-...

05/12/2019

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03/12/2019

Two HK scooter riders dead in 6 weeks and statistically there should be another rider and a pedestrian dead in the coming 10 months . Whilst they are illegal, many people are buying them due to the problems with public transport, being able to get away from the police or violent protests. People don't understand that those tiny front wheels pivot a rider over the handle bar when the front wheel hits anything, and slams the rider into the ground head first. The fact that scooters are so easy to ride and so easy under estimate the risk causes riders to have large accidents.

The Volkswagen scooter in the photo shows what a scooter would have to be like to be vaguely safe, it is large, big front wheel, heavy and as impractical as a bicycle is in Hong Kong.

Legalising scooters is very complex and a Regulator would have to get the death levels to be in line with other vehicles. Our view is that whilst regulation, education, enforcement and penalties could bring the risk down, there would still be deaths. The question to ask is why bother with scooters when unicycles are far safer, are less of a nuisance and fit HK's life style? Why not just focus first on regulating unicycles?