It makes it clear the direction of movement and how the user has to position themselves so they can ride it without thinking about it- but it saves power from slowing down

  • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I’m actually a retired electrical engineer, used to do aircraft avionics. Anyway it’s a simple thing to measure amperage loading on the motor to set a threshold for sleep and wake. But in engineering there’s always more than one way to accomplish a task. An optical sensor and timer would be another way to do it.