Those hoverboards look cool even though they're not
really hoverboards. If you've seen Back to the Future, you'd say I'm saying
hoverboards look like what Lexus attempted to do. But I digress.
The trouble is, authorities don't like you using your
£400 hoverboard on public roads and mall authorities are likely to tell you the
same thing.
Then you ask them, what's the big deal? They're just
skateboards with engines.
It's those engines, apparently.
In
the UK
Currently, UK law does not permit the use of electric
skateboards and other wheeled devices in public roads and properties.
Considered as personal transportation, anything that goes beyond the speed of
4mph is to have its own insurance safeguards.
Well, nobody designed electric-skateboard type of
insurance policies. But you do get a warranty from the shop. But that's not the
point.
"You can only ride an unregistered self-balancing
scooter on land which is private property and with the landowner's
permission," according to CPS guidelines, citing a 180-year-old law. In
Scotland, they are illegal under the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984.
Bloody ridiculous.
In
California
So why is it that Californians are allowed to ride
their hoverboards anywhere they want? Well, they have nothing against personal
transportation travelling at speeds further than 4mph.
Signed the same time on Sunday when the London Met
banned us all from fun travels to the mall and back, the Californian law allows
hoverboards to ride as it disables a ban
on motorised skateboards and personal transporation from the 1970s deeming it
outdated.
The 70s law stated it was petrol-powered motors, which
made it illegal.
Wow. That 180-year-old law sure is young.
