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Isn't the way it keeps the nose up by speeding up though?

• colecut 4y ago
  No, it uses battery power to self balance once it detects you standing on the board, the nose will stay up at a standstill. This also means if you run out of battery power the nose will just drop on you.
  • rtkwe 4y ago
    The force to balance though comes from the wheel torque which are from either speeding up or slowing down.
• zamalek 4y ago
  That's emergent behavior (and that emergent behavior is the principle by which all balancing devices work). All it tries to do is keep the board level. Below a certain torque (which is inversely correlated to available wattage and speed) the board loses the ability to stay level. If overcurrent protection kicks in then the motor will abruptly turn off, usually resulting in a nosedive (because your center of gravity will be towards the nose of the board while speeding up). There are experienced riders who can ride pretty far beyond safe limits by balancing themselves, but that's incredibly dangerous.