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Hover boards 

They're known variously as "hover boards" or "rideables" and are the latest must-have at the feet of celebrities - but the Crown Prosecution Service says riding them on public UK roads is illegal. What is this futuristic new breed of transportation - and how practical is it? within the first five minutes teenagers or anyone who uses it learns how to go round in circles. Next it going around in circles one footed. Urban dictionary have called it the "swegway". Others call it the hover board. Doesn't matter what it's called all you need to know it is a two wheeled motorized vehicle which is a cross between a skateboard and a segway.   

But despite becoming a relatively common sight on the streets of the UK's main cities, "self-balancing scooters" are actually banned under section 72 of the highway act  for use of public roads and pavements in the UK. According to the Department for Transport, the only place where it is legal is on private property, with the owner's consent. One man was caught on a segway scooter and fined £75 for riding it on the pavement.  

I believe that these motorized segway scooters or hover-boards should be legal to ride along the pavement but not roads. This just because it is to slow and may create a danger for the riders the other drivers around him/her. And even if there was to be a faster one made to keep with the speed requirements on the roads I believe that it would be too dangerous and people may hurt themselves. I also think that people riding the "swegways" should wear a helmet or some type of decent head protection.