Auto Polo

This photo is incredible

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Auto_pol...

"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

I’m sure many of us are reminded immediately of the old Top Gear auto football matches:

https://youtu.be/SIeu7_-iwdw

What an incredibly bad idea!

To hear it was "popular"...

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

Australian Motorcycle Chariot Race

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1avID4bJ3pw

Bike Polo is still alive https://youtu.be/CBZgC7u6ji8 and for example https://youtu.be/PxMms5Yh_gI

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

> though deaths due to auto polo were rare.

Oh well, then...

Was? Not with this attitude!