why the hell do people call barless segway's hoverboards???

ahahah damn right

Yeah they're going hoverboard there.

Because they're stupid, that's why they buy Segways and Hoverboards in the first place. Do you know what could replace that "complex" (it's not, it's a couple of gyroscopes) circuitry that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop? One extra wheel in the back of the board to stabilize it. There - I've given you a free Life Hack. ;O;

Found the Maddox fan

This ingenious life hack of adding a third wheel to a Segway would serve you splendidly until the first time you had to drive uphill.

The "complex circuitry" can be found in every mobile phone these days, the "complex algorithms" that need to be "developed" are routinely done as a school homework by process automation students (which doesn't matter, ultimately, because the manufacturers download the software anyway) and the whole thing adds approximately $2 to the end price (compared to making it a scooter), and is simply too cheap to not be incorporated. The fact you don't faceplant every time you try to stop (like you would with the brilliant three-wheeled solution) is a plus. They are $200, people (if you are paying more for them you are getting fucking skinned), and there's no reason to try to save a few bucks by making it not self-balancing.

That being said I do agree it's stupid to call them hoverboards, but calling them the name they are sold under online ("Smart Electric Scooter 2 Wheels Unicycle Self balancing Balance board" on eBay) would be silly. The problem with this is that usually products are colloquially named after the first brand to introduce them, and this becomes a generic name for this type of product, but these things were never introduced as a brand, they were introduced as "you know, that one thing from that one video here lemme show you it's totally cool" so the naming was left to the public, and the public are idiots.

Self-balancing board would suffice because that's what they are. As for your faceplanting argument, that's highly debatable (see: every skateboard in the universe). I was also refering to Segways as a whole "branch" of products, those have a handlebar, so no loss of balance there. As for driving uphill, I guess bicycles with training wheels can't do that either. Oh wait, they can. Nobody makes self-balancing bicycles because adding another wheel or two solves the non-problem of keeping balance without overcomplicating things.

I thought it was just a thing at my school. Like that Pokemon card craze (that I started). Everyone wanted one of those things, and was actually willing to pay good money, if I were to tell them a card was rare. Every morning a group of people would flock around my desk and ask if I got any good ones to show off. They don't do that anymore though. Nobody in my school cares about Pokemon anymore. Let alone me.

I'm guessing because it sells more money than if they call hoverboard "Hands-free segway". It's also a way for them to tap into us human's desires to fly or float.

People are fucking stupid.
Once one fool calls something something stupid, every one will call it that.

People aren't humans, their sheeps.

Why do we drive on parkways and park in driveways?

This was an invention for people who are too lazy to walk

@OP POST HOLY CRAP I AGREE

Christ I hate those things.