Hoverboards

Unlike other mobility fads like the ill-fated Segway self-balancing personal transporter or tricky hoverboards, electric scooters combine portability, practicality, and functionality.

To take the leader-board, the majority of the hoverboards will let you ride for 25 km (or 15 miles) approximately for a charging life of only one to two hours at max.

Mr. Yee said hoverboards, delivery drones, and data-gathering devices on sidewalks or other public infrastructure would be subject to regulation.

Just because I believe that such extravagant spending is a direct slap in the face to the countless dying in poverty every year doesn’t necessarily mean that you can’t want a 15,000 square foot house for you and your seventy-five hoverboards.

So the question remains: are scooters to go the way of segways and hoverboards — relegated to niche populations — or will they take off and become a standard mode of transportation, like Uber?