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Post by hoverboards on Feb 16, 2016 8:17:14 GMT -5
There's at least 20 campuses that have banned them, along with airlines and several municipalities. The chairman of the CPSC made an interesting comment that they were looking into whether people's weights might actually be the reason that their are so many wipeouts. The point he was making was that the code inside them might not account for wide variety of body weights, and suddenly could adjust throwing the person off.
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Post by hoverboards on Feb 16, 2016 8:11:26 GMT -5
Ah, I hand't even considered that whole train of thought. My original line of questioning was just to see what the community thought of them overall. i.e. Is it just a phenomenon that will quickly pass?
It's nuts just how many different names that they have for them, but for ease of conversation, I'm just going to refer to them as a hoverboard. What's the criteria of what makes a personal transportation device a scooter?
Should it be a two wheeled vehicle that has it's wheels arranged fore and aft, inline with the direction of travel?
But could you also call something a scooter if it had it's 2 wheels arranged perpendicular to the direction of travel?
Or maybe it doesn't matter how the wheels are arranged, or the number. (this way electric unicycles, Segways, trikes, and quads can get thrown into this too) Instead it matters solely upon the method of controlling the device.
So it brings me back to the point of what is the criteria that make something a scooter vs not a scooter?
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Post by hoverboards on Feb 15, 2016 9:38:37 GMT -5
What do you think about self balancing scooters or hoverboards? (yes, I know they don't hover, but the general public calls them hoverboards) More specifically, I'm working on creating an blog post and wanted to get the opinion of more traditional scooter users. Do you think that hoverboards will be able to pass their current safety issues and integrate into how people travel in their daily lives? Or do you think they are a ticking time bomb just waiting to explode?
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