Instead, what it does is remind me of toddlers’ shoes w/ flashing LED. It’s a very distracting piece of sh … shoe, man, with a very distracting name, Pioneer. The idea is old: kinetic energy converted to light, what else.

To designers Feijun Chen & Bin Zhao, I guess that, despite the shoe’s cool aesthetics, headlights are not the way to bling out a shoe. And man, I want stable headlights while I’m drive-by shooting.

Verdict: screams arrested development.