Marty McFly would have had problems with the police if he had traveled a few years further into the future and been to Gauting instead of Hill Valley. The young man who is played in the comedy film “Back to the Future” by Michael J. Fox is sometimes on a hoverboard that whizzes through the air while hovering above the earth. Without proper lighting and without insurance. Of course that doesn’t work. Even if the thing has wheels.
Like recently on Münchner Strasse in Gauting. A place, by the way, that also has valley and hills, which makes locomotion by muscle power sometimes difficult. It is easy to find out who is a resourceful hobbyist or who has a mobile pedestal with an electric motor. Preferably one with light and approval.
On Friday, the police took a mobile pedestal that did not comply with the regulations in many ways. There was a 45-year-old man on an e-skateboard with an electric motor and battery under the board. With such a vehicle, speeds of up to 40 kilometers per hour could be achieved and that without muscle power, reports the police. That’s pretty quick. Faster than would be allowed in the many Tempo 30 zones in the place.
From the police’s point of view, it is also problematic that the board has no brakes, handrails, lights and similar safety devices. That is why it should only be used on private property. The board made sure that the driver is facing criminal proceedings. He just didn’t have a flux compensator to make a jump in time like Marty McFly.
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