Auto Polo
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canjobear

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arlobish ・ 2 hours ago

"The official inventor of auto polo...devised the sport as a publicity stunt in 1911 to sell Model T cars."

Amazing to see how little has changed in 100 years when it comes to competing for attention

TomMasz ・ 2 hours ago

Unsurprisingly, it died out "mostly due to the high cost of replacing vehicles". Was it the inspiration for demolition derbies?

xg15 ・ 42 minutes ago

> though deaths due to auto polo were rare.

Oh well, then...

merelysounds ・ 3 hours ago

I guess the modern day equivalent (technology that’s relatively new, unsafe and unregulated) would be electric scooter polo? I found no sign of a sport like this though.

I think kick scooter polo exists. And bike polo[1] is well known.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcourt_Bike_Polo

  • consumer451 ・ 3 hours ago

    My first thought was that Segways would be ideal for the nerdiest fun modern-ish recreation of polo. It turns out that it was a thing.

    > The Segway polo world championship is the Woz Challenge Cup. It is named after Steve "Woz" Wozniak, cofounder of Apple Inc., and a player of Segway polo

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segway_polo

  • swiftcoder ・ 2 hours ago

    WhirlyBall[1], which is kind of like pelota + basketball in bumper cars, seems like a pretty good bet. There are only a handful of courts left, but I've done a few offsites at the Seattle one, and it's good fun.

    The bumper cars are truly weird - they draw power from the conductive floor of the court, and have a one-handed control system that makes you trigger forward/reverse by turning the steering wheel a full rotation...

    [1]: https://www.whirlyball.com

  • vhcr ・ 2 hours ago

    There's also e-wheel polo

  • tigerlily ・ an hour ago

    I for one wish for mobile crane joust.

haunter ・ 2 hours ago

Was? Not with this attitude!