Why does it feel like the entire world is against the rise of the hoverboard? Just weeks after Wiz Khalifa was harassed and ultimately arrested at an airport for merely owning a hoverboard-esque device, overseas lovers of hovering are now waking up to the realization that hoverboarding in public is actually against the law:
The Metropolitan Police shared the abysmal news to potential hoverboarders, specifying that it's illegal to hoverboard "on public roads or pavements, or anywhere apart from private property with the landowner's permission." Simply allowing people to just hoverboard anyway would apparently risk violation of section 72 of the Highway Act 1835 in England and Wales and section 129(5) of the Roads Act 1984 in Scotland, according to Mashable.
This tremendous news comes on the heels of Lexus recently unveiling an admittedly beautiful hoverboard, only to then clarify that it's not actually available for anyone to own. What kind of torturous future is this?
