I’ve seen a few videos of this thing in action, and while I like the concept - especially that you can use the same device to mow the lawn too with the lawnmower attachment - it’s still quite painful to watch it work.
Especially with snow blowing, it’s just so disorganized: driving all over the place and making quite the mess. If I’m dropping 5k on an automatic snow blower, I don’t want to have to clean up after it.
5k will go pretty far with the neighbor kid too.
Shit, for $5k I’d sign up.
Come on kiddo, the $5k is in my basement next to the snow shovels I’ve collected.
I’ll take the cheap knockoff version that works better than this original (though worse than the current model) in ten years
It drives however you program it to.
Like every machine, only in certain conditions, which I assume the maker tries to hide as much as possible.
Like snow or ice buildup causing issues with the camera, radar, etc.
Or it not being able to find its way back to the charging station
They suck
It also runs over children and small animals indiscriminately! Not one mention of safety features in the entire article is concerning.
That’s the feature! Killer feature, I would say…
This company overpromises and underdelivers as if it’s a Chinese competition to do so.
Source: own the lawn mower and blower
My driveway isn’t nearly long enough to justify the cost but its very cool.
a 24-inch clearing width and is rated to handle snow depths of up to 12 inches in a single pass.
Cough[bullshit]cough
video shows it blowing maybe an inch.
What was wrong with a $10 shovel?
100 people die in the US every year from shoveling snow. Not everyone is fit for the task, and yet if you own property you are almost required to.
Yeah, that’s fair. Snow blowers as a personal purchase have always felt silly to me, since if needed you could always pay for a shovel/plow service that just come when it snows, so you don’t have an expensive appliance sitting around that might barely be used. Now I’m wondering what the cost comparison would look like between the two. I suppose it depends on how much snow you usually get
I see this as something that makes the services more affordable. A municipality might even be able to deploy them for seniors if they are efficient enough.
That would be a great application for it! Okay, I’m swayed in the other direction. For stuff like schools, churches, etc, I can see it making sense. Especially if the machines aren’t hard to maintain.
Pretty hard to use if you’re disabled.
Yes but no but yes… but give me money!
“Your momma was a snowblower!” - Johnny 5
Where’s the fun in that??
