Me: Casually scanning through a website I just discovered called This Is Why I'm Broke

HOLD UP!

DOUBLE HOLD UP!! This is the exact line I'm trying to drive here!! How long has this been a thing?!!?

3 weeks ago?!?! Well at least I wasn't out of the loop or anything when I started thinking of this project over 12 months ago. Why do I, a single person, have to be split amongst a dozen and a half projects again?

Anyway, I'm watching the video and other than the whole battery life question, I'm noticing that the floor in most shots are very nice and flat. That... that uh... yeah that's not really the standard in UK pavement technology. It's uh... it's pretty rough. The kind where 5" scooter wheels are going to feel giga-impact if there's no suspension.  I'm also trying to be a bit igcognito here, whereby there cannot be any wheels/springs/etc visible on TEOSS. I don't want to be having to take them off like the woman at 2:54 every time I go into a shop.

At least now I know it's 100% possible to obtain a solution and I've got a price target, which is £1200 (the expected non-kickstarter price). I expect TEOSS to be >£600, and it seems that all my solutions so far are 2x what I expect, so £1200 is probaby in the final solution ballpark BOM. The inventor also said he's been trying to obtain a solution for 5 years and had the assistance of others, so me, singular, only 1 year in isn't too terrible.

I can also start reading the comments and start taking some notes to refine a solution.