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I got told to stop riding (slower than walking speed, mind you) by a rando in Fukuoka while I was going from the station to where I had my car parked. I've taken the wheel to Osaka, Mie, Hokkaido and ridden it on very narrow back roads (always avoiding main traffic roads) without issues. I got told once by a police in a *really* rural area to get off the wheel and had to carry it back to my car few 100 meters (again, i was going at or below walking speed), on a completely deserted pedestrian pass next to a narrow countryside road. 未来ホイール looks to have been a website of some kind but they are currently down, インモーション - Mirai Wheel - 電動一輪車Miraiwheel 未来ホイール https://miraiwheel.com/collections/schooter Mirai Wheel · サインイン; 0 0 · ショップ · 未来ホイールについて · コンタクト · ギャラリー · ホーム インモーション Page 1 of 1. インモーションV5とインモーションV8. 未来型の ... (from google cache) There's a youtube channel called same but no posts in last 10 months - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBNOs4rTHqtZBBARug4DVTg/videos I'm pretty sure whoever was running that was prolly just a foreigner who might have left Japan.

Gotten worse, sadly. Some people on the street are aware of recent arrests (3 so far?) related to EUC and tell you not to ride it. Supposedly clear to go in parks (but some parks specifically forbid bicycles and thus EUCs), and on private property / not public roads.

I just leave my wheel laying around, because I know: 1) nobody around knows how to ride it 2) nobody is dumb enough to steal 20kg+ of stuff with zero practical value to them But then I live in Japan btw, USB thing is pretty handy, it can be used to charge the phone while riding, as well as on a train/something - I've powered up the wheel in a 3-4 hour train ride and kept the phone topped up from that.

For that to work, EUCs would need to be not banned in Japan first (no riding on public roads, only indoors/on private property)

This one, also because its 1) heavy 2) almost noone knows how to ride it. So I can literally just leave it in front of a shop and come back and know it will remain in the same spot

https://teamkepler.com/archives/taro_blog/20181002 An interesting article (in Japanese) on the recent police activity related to EUC user in Japan. Discusses the problems with current law. And that it probably should be changed. Currently there has been 2 police involvements with EUC owner. 1) https://response.jp/article/2018/09/28/314469.html the most recent one, explained in the article above. 2) https://www.kyoto-np.co.jp/top/article/20180110000115 in January 2018, when there was accident between EUC and motorbike. Perhaps eventually the law can be adjusted. Let's hoping.