Austria’s government has just issued rules for travel by hoverboard, granting them legal status for use anywhere a skateboard would be legal. But so far, hoverboards, which skim along just above the surface, don’t actually exist. Or didn’t until the invention shown in the video above.
Those of you who don’t remember the 1980s movie series Back to the Future, featuring a time-traveling Delorean car, a semi-clueless teenager and a nutty but brilliant professor, will be scratching your heads over why the Austrian government has just granted legal status to a transportation technology that doesn’t exist.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the first of the three time-travel movies that used a Delorean car as a time machine, and October 21st is the key date for travel in the second of the movies, released in 1989. Publicity for the movies, which are still popular, no doubt influenced the decision. Oh, and rules are still to come for anyone wishing to use the rocket-propelled version that appeared in the first movie.
