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sight-pin

Veteran
Here's another hoverboard without wheels, https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=6&v=HSheVhmcYLA

@classic33 beat me to it, lol
 

sight-pin

Veteran
To be honest it's a shame they can't find some compromise to allow this type of new tech in a safe way here, We do seem to be a bit killjoy in the UK, even kids of 3 or 4 years of age was once being pulled up for riding their electric 2 mph toy cars or motor bikes on the kerb, even though the parents were in control.
 

midlife

Legendary Member
I had a go on a Segway off road on holiday in Scotland, great fun :smile:. Nothing like Paul Blaart.

Shaun
 

Smurfy

Naturist Smurf
A student was riding one inside Wilkos store in Headingley last Thursday,instore i ask you.
I saw a Jehovahs Witness wizzing round on one handing out leaflets to people. Does it get any more menacing than that?
 

GrumpyGregry

Here for rides.
Hoverboards all the rage with the blonde haired middle-class yoof of cph. Segway tours are very common sight.

But the mindset here seems to be if you want to hurt or kill yourself on the latest craze the mother state won't stop you but will be here to pick up the pieces. Small rich relatively heavily taxed country I guess.
 

mustang1

Legendary Member
Location
London, UK
To be honest it's a shame they can't find some compromise to allow this type of new tech in a safe way here, We do seem to be a bit killjoy in the UK, even kids of 3 or 4 years of age was once being pulled up for riding their electric 2 mph toy cars or motor bikes on the kerb, even though the parents were in control.

In the centre of London, where the streets are narrow, the crowds are huge, people walk about staring into their phones, walking into roads with headphones on, no-parking stumps making the already narrow sidewalks narrower (along with parking metres, parking sign posts, shop advert bill boards), cracked pavements, and people going for a lunch time jog,meandering in and out of peoples ways, nodoubt cursing them as they run... Now we're saying kids can't enjoy a little fun?

On my commute to work, I see someone using a segway to get to work. No doubt he thinks the traffic isn't moving anywhere, the subway is an overcrowded armpit sniffing joke, the buses are stuck in aforementioned traffic.

Sometimes I wish the law wasn't so restrictive and allow the progress of society to continue at a slightly faster pace. I guess it might be due to a safety issue, but in the grand scheme of things, I can't see why segway-like devices are considered a problem.
 

swansonj

Guru
I saw a Jehovahs Witness wizzing round on one handing out leaflets to people. Does it get any more menacing than that?
I have been to two US airports where the police use them to get around the terminal building. If my first inclination was to laugh, I restrained myself in front of the burly, six foot something, heavily armed Baltimore cop.
 
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