China’s makeshift hoverboard industry is imploding after Amazon’s safety crackdown - Quartz

So decisions made for the best interests of safety have caused an entire manufacturing market to implode.

Personally, I have no sympathy since they were making and selling sub-standard products and flooding a market of unknowing consumers who assumed that there were protections in place to prevent this from happening.  There weren't, until bad things started to happen.





China’s makeshift hoverboard industry is imploding after Amazon’s safety crackdown - Quartz

Statement from the U.S. CPSC Chairman Elliot F. Kaye on the safety of hoverboards | CPSC.gov

Statement from the U.S. CPSC Chairman Elliot F. Kaye on the safety of hoverboards | CPSC.gov

Amazon urges customers to throw away unsafe hoverboards | Daily Mail Online

Amazon urges customers to throw away unsafe hoverboards | Daily Mail Online

Swagway hoverboard maker sued after scooter exploded in a FIREBALL | Daily Mail Online

Swagway hoverboard maker sued after scooter exploded in a FIREBALL | Daily Mail Online

Amazon Dropping Most Hoverboards From its Store Due to Safety Concerns

Interesting development

Amazon just sent out a notice to all “hoverboard” sellers to “provide documentation demonstrating that all hoverboards you list are compliant with applicable safety standards, including UN 38.3 (battery), UL 1642 (battery), and UL 60950-1 (charger).”

Read more: http://wccftech.com/amazon-dropping-hoverboards/#ixzz3uOvUzaaj





Amazon Dropping Most Hoverboards From its Store Due to Safety Concerns

Trading Standards officers seize 15,000 unsafe hoverboards - BBC News

The latest and greatest media hyped threat:  Hoverboards



Trading Standards officers seize 15,000 unsafe hoverboards - BBC News



In generally, these devices are causing issues when being charged.  As cargo, in their retail packaging and never having been used, there are no documented incidents.



By hyping the risk up in the media and making it harder to move or ship, you create an environment where unscrupulous shippers tender these as general cargo and do not declared the hazard, which is more dangerous than the risk of the battery.



Clandestine or illegal shipments being shipped as mail or small package via courier are also great concerns to safety and pose risks.  The industry has been finding undeclared or mis-declared shipments on a more regular basis.



When properly declared and tendered, the risk of this has been mitigated to its lowest level and are acceptable to transport.