Police say it’s illegal to ride ‘hoverboards’ in London

To the dismay of “Back to the Future” fans across Britain, it has been confirmed that hoverboards, otherwise known as self-balancing scooters, are illegal to ride in public, according to guidelines released by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

The Met said, ‘They’re technically motor vehicles and therefore have to be registered, licensed and insured to ride on public roads. Basically, due to laws originally enacted to regulate Segway transport, it’s only legal to ride your hoverboard on private property with the landowner’s permission.

The CPS originally issued the guidance for Segway scooters but the popularity of the newer boards has prompted the police to tweet a warning.

The popular Hoverboard you see everyone riding has been banned in the United Kingdom, according to Metropolitan Police.

However, many probably don’t know that riding these “hoverboards” on both the roads and pavements is illegal in the UK. Not chaos. What kind of world would it be if the authorities just let young troublemakers ride their self-balancing scooters all over the place?

“As a effect, any user of such a vehicle on a public road is likely at the very least to be committing the offences of using the vehicle without insurance and using the vehicle without an excise license”, the CPS document said.

But in England, Wales and Scotland, it is also an offence to take it for a spin on the pavement, as it can prove to be a unsafe hazard for others.

Hoverboards are now a common sight in big shopping centres such as the Westfield complex, even though they are banned inside the site.

Though the “hoverboards” aren’t really hoverboards, since they’re actually rolling on the ground, they were a way of giving humanity one of the few remaining predictions of the film that haven’t yet come true.

Across the Atlantic, American rapper Wiz Khalifa, whose real name is Cameron Jibril Thomaz, was handcuffed by United States customs officials in August after refusing to get off his hoverboard at Los Angeles Airport in California.

Several hoverboard-like devices, including the Solowheel Hovertrax and MonoRover R2, which require only a little balancing skill to operate, have gone on sale this year.