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Instead, we got this:
Via The Verge
The Consumer Product Safety Commission stated in January it was investigating the cause of fires involving hoverboards. CPSC published a letter in February to consumers urging them to get rid of their hoverboards if they don’t meet the safety regulations. Since then not even Amazon or Walmart sells the devices.
But not everyone has listened.
Just this past week three families in Florida have been displaced due to a hoverboard catching fire while charging.
This follows in the same vein as the fire that took place in the Miami Valley in February. A 12-year-old was charging his hoverboard and caught the home on fire.
Josh Putman, the owner of the home, told Dayton Daily News, “Luckily, we were home when it happened.” Had they not been, “our whole house would have burned down.”
Most colleges in the Miami Valley have banned these devices from campuses.
Even now hoverboards are facing yet another ban, but this time not for safety.
The ban is from a patent infringement from Segway targeting the import of these devices into the U.S. from China.
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