Stupid or Amazing: Hoverboards

Since they've reached critical mass, people have been putting them to use in strange and wonderful ways: choreographing dances on them. [...]as someone who grew up in Detroit, the auto capital of the world, where I was raised to shirk bicycling and walking for more automated modes of transport,...

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Published in:Popular mechanics (New York. 1959) 2016-05, Vol.193 (5), p.112
Main Author: Goulet, Matt
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
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Summary:Since they've reached critical mass, people have been putting them to use in strange and wonderful ways: choreographing dances on them. [...]as someone who grew up in Detroit, the auto capital of the world, where I was raised to shirk bicycling and walking for more automated modes of transport, the only thing keeping me from propelling myself back and forth between my desk and the bathroom is an intense sense of public shame. In an effort to keep pedestrians safe and as a tacit acknowledgment of hoverboards as a very real means of commuting, California recently relegated the public use of the propelled scooters to bike lanes across the state.
ISSN:0032-4558