Whoever thought "Transcendent Mobility" was a good name for what's nothing more than a consumerized version of the standard ride app ebike design needs to get out of their bubble more often.
There are some good ideas here, like the removable battery that doubles as a usb-c power bank, but making it all depend on a phone app is such a massive turn off for me. Considering this thing's price tag and on-board compute, the decision to not include a key fob for offline/phoneless use had to be 100% intentional.
At least when Fiskar went under and took their cloud environment offline, the vehicles could still be unlocked and operated independently. This thing will be nothing more than an expensive brick on locked wheels.
Whoever thought "Transcendent Mobility" was a good name for what's nothing more than a consumerized version of the standard ride app ebike design needs to get out of their bubble more often.
There are some good ideas here, like the removable battery that doubles as a usb-c power bank, but making it all depend on a phone app is such a massive turn off for me. Considering this thing's price tag and on-board compute, the decision to not include a key fob for offline/phoneless use had to be 100% intentional.
At least when Fiskar went under and took their cloud environment offline, the vehicles could still be unlocked and operated independently. This thing will be nothing more than an expensive brick on locked wheels.
Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672449