do you use your hoverboard in public or just at home?

>>52360823
nowhere. when they were handing out races i guess i got in line late and they ran out of all the color.

>just at home

wtf, how big is your house exactly?

>>52360823
>hoverboard

can you show another angle? that thing seems to be on the ground even though you claimed it was hovering.

>>52360978
>>52360986
People were desperate for hoverboards ala Back to the Future, so they pretended to make them to confuse the old people and sell more and be like "it's 201X, of course we have hoverboards!"

>>52361012
That being said it is still a stupid name, and it's the 2010s version of Segway.

>>52360986
don't lean into autism

I think they are cool but it's a technology that won't catch on for a while because it looks dumb to modern social norms. Like Google Glass.

>>52361079
Also many countries have banned them.

>>52360823
"Hover"

at school this dude has one, and he rides around on it with such a faggot grin on his face, like he's hot shit with his moving standing machine

>>52361138
Because of the batteries catching on fire I'm guessing? An issue that can be solved and was over hyped by the media in the first place.

>>52361158
Not banned as is you cant buy one, but banned for use in public spaces. Pretty sure other places have done the same.

>UK
>not instabanning everything by default

>>52361158
>An issue that can be solved and was over hyped by the media in the first place.
it was an expected result given the industry wasn't willing (or able) to manage itself.

if you wanted to avoid the FAA legislating drones and every transportation agency regulating "hoverboards", it would help not to enable retarded jackasses to fly drones into actively used airspace and to allow chink niggers sell their shitty exploding chink products.

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>>52360837
Intel confirmed for nigger.

>>52361176
They arent banned here cuck

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I use my electric unicycle quite a bit. They're harder to learn but superior for actual commutes. At first it seems pointless but then you realize how much time it saves on small 2-3km trips. You can technically run faster but it's not feasible to run in every situation and the unicycle can maintain it's speed climbing a hill.

>>52361206
You can't legally use them outside of private property.

>retard using his "hoverboard" on the fucking road
>brrrrrrrrrrt past him on my motorcycle
>look back
>he fell
Kek

>>52361214
why exactly? do these things even reach dangerous speeds?

>>52361222
>riding a motorcycle
>laughing at other people for being retarded
how the blind lead the blind...

>>52361176
Oh I see. That has always been a gray area because the government would consider it a motorized vehicle or at least something with wheels (bikes, skateboards) and technically not allowed on sidewalks. I think that's bullshit if you ask me.

>>52361190
The government wants control regardless. Flying anything into regulated airspace was already illegal. Bikes and skateboards are usually illegal on sidewalks or the street in some places.

>>52361201
With detachable vibrator.

>>52361229
i googled "hoverboard banned why" and the first few results had direct answers to your question.

did you have any additional questions that the top result didn't explain sufficiently?

>>52361229
It's the fucktarded old law about motorised vehicles not being allowed to go over walking speed without being taxed/registered and having compliant signals and lights etc.

>>52361248
They have the same type of batteries cell phones use, but I don't see phones being banned for risk of fire

>>52361212
That looks kind of cool really. You get any odd stares in public? How much does it weigh?

>>52361237
>Bikes and skateboards are usually illegal on sidewalks
bikes shouldn't be legal on sidewalks. i ride a bike every day and while i appreciate that roads are not necessarily safe enough for all bikers everywhere, allowing bikes on sidewalks would be crazy irresponsible.

roads are not necessarily always safe. if you're driving and don't feel comfortable, you don't get to pull off into the shoulder and drive slower until you feel comfortable. if the roads aren't sufficiently safe for biking, you can't just executively determine that now the sidewalk, where pedestrians are absent-mindedly milling around, is an appropriate fallback.

Maximum fedora.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aDlWSvAm9w

>>52361263
It's like hammers kill more than guns but they aren't under the spotlight all the time. Laws are always about "muh feelings" or taxing than actual safety.

>>52361263
That wasn't the rationale given in the first result that I read (pertaining to UK laws), but the response to your issue is that cell phones didn't explode with nearly as much frequency as hoverboards have so soon after coming to market.

if you want to insist that we get a light touch from regulators, it helps if the "first impression" they get isn't a series of news stories of the battery packs bursting into flames.

>>52361229
They keep catching fire.

>>52361299
Cell phones have caught fire, their batteries aren't nearly as big so they usually just destroy themselves if they do.

>>52361291
>hammers kill more than guns
I don't want to give you the impression that your post's equivocating logic is anything other than stupid, but I have to ask; is there a source on this?

>>52360823
that isn't a hoverboard, OP, it has wheels.

>>52360823
>spending money on stupid shit
>you could be building a home server

>>52361324
Yes, cell phones have caught fire, but like I said before, first impressions matter. By the time we started seeing lots of talk about cell phones bursting into flames, they had already secured a place in our lives.

Congresspeople could take hoverboards or leave them without losing sleep that night. See if anyone feels that way about smartphones or tablets or laptops.

>>52361212
>but then you realize how much time it saves on small 2-3km trips. You can technically run faster but it's not feasible to run in every situation

You know what also saves you time on 2-3km trips? A bicycle.

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I don't rage over them, in fact wouldn't mind getting one and seeing how well they work for steadicam operation But I kind of fantasized this guy getting clotheslined off his.

>>52361380
Then you have to find a place to park it and lock it up. That one you can just pick up and carry with you indoors.

>>52361345
I guess I'm partially wrong. Blunt objects have murdered more than any type of gun except handguns.

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8

>>52361394
How much does it weigh?

>>52361401
http://mobbo.co/mobbo-features.html

I'd like to know the range.

>>52361212
> be me
> sitting in traffic
> low (~1 foot) hedge between road and footpath
> see dude moving along at running speed
> cant see his feet, but can see his legs are perfectly still
> appears to be standing still, hands calmly crossed behind back
> can do nothing but holler out of my window "are you a god?"
> he lols and continues on his way

And that was the day my mind was blown by one of those electric unicycles. This was close to two years ago as well, so there was literally nothing on the domestic market like them that I'd seen or heard of.

>>52361271
About 10-12 kg, I just put it in a backpack when I go into shops.

I had one guy stop his car in the middle of the road and stare at it. So far I have had 3 people wanting to try and ride it, no one has managed to stay on first go yet.

The existing designs are still very new and crude and mostly reuse ebike parts. With proper development and custom parts I think the weight should fall to about 6kg for a model with 20km/h cruise speed and 15-20km range.

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>>52360823
I don't buy into retarded trends.

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>>52361401
Don't know if I looked at the right model on their website, but looks like about 35 pounds, about the weight of a case of beer. So it's a luggable weight.

0:44 is gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbOWr7y0cT4

>>52361510
top sides

>>52361501
I'd say it's not terribly practical if you're lugging other stuff as well

also
>1000W
>16 km/h

Good grief that's inefficient.

>>52361397
Over the whole history of murder / homicide blunt object would come out on top, then sharp objects. But there were less people back then. Guns are catching up. Already passed if we counted war but that would be silly. War is war.

Only when I need kindling.

>>52360823

Is it just me, or is this device used exclusively by black people?

I don't care, nor do I judge them for it. But the only examples I see online are black guys.

>>52360823
I use mine when I'm at the gym. It's the best way to do dead lifts.

>>52361397
what a profoundly stupid point to try (and fail) to make.

Holy shit this niqqa will haul me tons of mad pussey.

>>52361299
>That wasn't the rationale given in the first result that I read (pertaining to UK laws), but the response to your issue is that cell phones didn't explode with nearly as much frequency as hoverboards have so soon after coming to market.
>if you want to insist that we get a light touch from regulators, it helps if the "first impression" they get isn't a series of news stories of the battery packs bursting into flames.
They explode because the small manufacturers use batteries without understanding the specifications.
Self balancing vehicles and draw a huge amount of power, some of these lithium cells are only rated for 5amps so they get exposed to 10-15amp loads and overheat.

It's actually largely a problem due to western laws, because they more or less banned electric mobility vehicles everywhere when the segway was announced no large company will distribute them in the west. So then you you have demand but no supply, so small chinese appliance factories started buying the parts and selling the units online via trading companies. They might only make 500-1000 hoverboards when they have downtime between jobs. They have no experience with lithium batteries or vehicles.

In China they have many well established brands and everyone knows not to buy the cheap generic ones or if you do to check the battery model before buying. So there's not many issues with fires there.

>>52361556
Blacks like novelty items like this because it's affordable and makes them the talk of the 'hood for a while. Like having the biggest gold chains or wheels on your car.

>>52361543
It's easy to see that murders have been on a steady decline regardless and has been since the 80's in the US.

>>52361556
I had some dumb white bitch pull out onto the road in front of me last week, she was fucking with her phone and didn't even look. It was all made better by seeing her face plant and carve her face up when she heard the horn and my wheels locking up. I hope she heard me gut laughing as I drove off.

Also, I need a dashcam.

>>52361533
>Good grief that's inefficient.
They don't use anything like 1000w. They might for a split second if they hit a bump, but generally its about 100-200watts.

My cheap generic unicycle travels around 7 kilometers on 0.13 kilowatt hours of energy.

>>52361212
Is it like the one from Lorax?

>>52361533
At that weight I wouldn't take it to the shopping mall unless they had lockers where I could stash it. But definitely something you could take to work, school, places where you'll be at in one place for a while, or quick errands. Or even if you drive to work at a place with a ridiculously large parking lot ... my brother used to rollerblade the last stretch from his car to the office.

>>52361154
The one at my schools a dumb nigger who rides it on the road expecting cars to go arond him

>attend popular college
>for years students have used longboards/other skateboards
>faster than walking
>requires little effort, no charging
>can be carried around unlike bikes
Meh.

Just get rollerblades you lazy fucks.

>>52361079
>it's a technology that won't catch on
it definitely catches on (fire)

>hoverboard
>doesn't actually hover

product of murrican autism

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>Hoverboard
>Not Hoveround
Stay pleb

>>52361212
Fucking faggot, just learn to ride a real unicycle.

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The rich will get richer and the fat will get fatter

>>52360823
>>52361212
How are you supposed to get off of these? Taking one foot off would throw the balance, right?

>>52361222
>and then a bald eagle swooped in and started weeping 9/11 tears of liberty on all american motorcycles
>and the hoverboard's name? albert einstein

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That shit doesn't even hover, why the hell do you insist on naming it so? It's a god damn horizontal scatboard.

>>52363844
You can ride the unicycles with one foot, do jumps etc.

Hoverboards on the other hand will hurl you into the pavement if one foot is lifted while moving or it slips due to a bump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9L5ETnJIHU

I've never seen this shit and I live in the cuck capital of Europe. This must be an amerifat thing only.

>>52364962
I saw some man in suit rolling with unicycle in Stockholm once.

>>52360823

>hoverboard

This is the equivalent of wearing your fedora out in public. It has the same stigma in my eyes.

>>52365524
you might think of it as stigmatized, but (unfortunately) hoverboards are cool these days. you see niggers riding around in them.

you don't see niggers wearing fedoras.

>>52360823
That shit isn't hovering.

I think the tech is cool and will lead to more innovative tech, but no, I'd never buy one.

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>>52365652
and gorilla glue isn't made of gorillas. products aren't named with much concern for autistic people. it's tragic, i know.

oh you know,

I mostly use it around the house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oOfIj6hXHo&spfreload=10

>>52361212
>yfw they are not even expensive on amazon and ebay
I saw them a while ago and I always thought those used in the videos etc etc are some prototypes going for over thousands of bucks
I think I will get me one soon, seems to be more fun than riding my bike in the city

>>52364943
nce epic music fgt hope u die fucking commi

>>52360978
>>52360986
>>52361024
>>52361149

The only people who take objection to the name are those with no friends and/or lives.

>>52365760

It's not even made BY gorillas either. What a travesty! I must post angry messages on a Malaysian moving image internet forum to remedy this situation!

>>52360823
>hoverboard

>>52366797

Refer to my post here, my friend! - >>52366747

Have a lovely day! :^)

>>52361071
>questioning an objectively deceiving name is autism
go shill elsewhere

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>hoverboard

>>52366803
>questioning the objectively correct name (used by the most people, therefore objectively correct) is autism
Correct, son.
>>52366807
Read my post here about your autism: >>52366747

Take care of yourselves and have a wonderful day. :'P

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>>52365760
>>52366763

>>52360823
I love it and use it all the time. For all intensive purposes I don't really walk anymore.

>>52360823
I use a revolutionary device instead, I'm not sure if you've heard of it, its called the folding bicycle

>>52366747
The only people who post in /g/ are those who have multiple dragon dildos and are using one right now

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>hoverboard

>>52360823
>hoverboard

>>52366889

Yeah you're probably right, I fucking hate this place so much, but there's nowhere else on the internet to effortlessly shitpost about technology.

The only alternative is Reddit but Reddit is insufferably left-wing.

>>52364943
>that dude literally riding 3 of them
holy fuck

now i want one
looks safe as shit

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>hoverboard

>>52364943
impressive

>>52366836
>used by the most people, therefore objectively correct
good b8 desu senpai

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I seen a guy on the road with one. Wanted to hit him with my truck

>>52367516
Cover the road they're riding on with sharp rocks.

>>52361229
8-15 MPH

Falling at that speed would hurt

>Hoverboard
>Hover
Why did we have to screw with the concept of this hoverboard.

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>>52367957
>Why did we have to screw with the concept of this hoverboard.
I wonder if I put pic related with a backpack and sell them as jetpacks, would people still buy it?

I'm not into cancer thank you.

>>52368161
Add LEDs and something with bluetooth and you have a winner

>>52361394
There are bikes you can fold up small enough they fit into a backpack.

>>52360823
I use mine to escape from house fires caused by my other one