Electric Scooters Need a Third Wheel
If electric scooters added a third wheel to the front, the entire industry could become self driving do deliveries in down time.
Not just deliveries, but dozens of other possibilities if only we added one wheel. More of the story, don’t underestimate wheels.
Scooters could also relocate to higher probability pick up places based on big data.
Another thing they could do is self drive to charging stations or verified chargers
Only one wheel and a self driving unit could change the entire small alternative EV market.
Broken down delivery units could be ridden back to maintenance, rather than having to track down a robot that broke on delivery and had to be packed into a car to get back to maintenance.
Uber is best positioned to do this for now, the power of their network should allow them to crush Lyft. Lyft would need to partner with a food delivery service which they may not have.
Self driving to charging stations could reduce a lot of human labor and emissions used to gather scooters, they can also self populate later onto the street in the highest probability spots, not be restricted to human error or other limitations
Self driving with two wheels is likely impossible, another stabilizing wheel is much better and much less engineering.
Other benefits of having a third wheel is that is’t much safer to drive, this could mean that younger people could ride them legally (a big market to grow in), also that they are much less likely to fall and get hurt.
Having a third wheel may obsolete the use of kickstands and reduce the probability that they fall over, a huge complaint in the industry
If one fell over, it probably means some jerk kicked it over.
My guess is there are a lot of maintenance damages caused in the top units because they can fall over, it’s all very sensitive electronics.
Self driving modules are trivial tech as well, all the tooling would need to do is turn the driving pole close to the bottom by the wheel.
Quoting Colin Lowenberg, he said he thinks they already have this at Disneyland… and he is terribly wrong. Image of his wrongness is below.
