Legal Update: Hover with caution
The arrival of hoverboards in 2015 suggested that, as in Back to the Future, technology had found yet another innovative and entertaining way to enhance our transport options, even if it was difficult to know if a hoverboard was just an advanced toy or a serious choice for commuters looking for something less than a bicycle but more than two feet.
Whatever you may consider it to be, we now know that, like many other products before it, if incautiously used or if badly made, not only can it cause a variety of harms but it can also be fatal.
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