> But in a more chaotic environment riding on the roads in a place that has hills, it's unusable

I ride my vanmoof in Seattle (very hilly and urban) and to say the auto-shift is "unusable" is a huge exaggeration IMO. It occasionally catches me out when I'm pedaling hard but for the most part it works OK.

Also, they've supported manual shifting for almost a year now: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/31/22649901/vanmoof-s3-x3-au...