If you thought the Segway was expensive, check out the Air Board that retails for $14,000. Although this personal hovercraft does have that hover board, Back to the Future feel to it, you could probably pick up a a pretty good used car for this sum of money.
The Air Board, which hovers 8-inches off the ground has a gasoline engine that runs through 1.3 gallons of fuel every hour, has a top speed of 15 mph and comes with two levers that control acceleration and break. Left and right turns on this personal vehicle are accomplished by shifting your body weight in one direction or the other and on the off chance that you fall off the Air Board, the safety switch will automatically engage to stop the vehicle.
The Air Board can be driven “over concrete, asphalt, grass or shallow wet areas, but you cannot hover over water, sand, stones or dirt-filled areas due to the bottomside vacuum.”
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