People like Chris McIntosh make me seriously wonder what I am doing with my life. McIntosh is a student at USC who has built his own motorized La-Z-Boy that can hit speeds of up to 40 mph.
McIntosh designed his first motorized chair in high school using an electric motor. Deciding that a 15-mph speed limit was too slow, he set to work remodeling his chair, swapping out the electric engine for a 4-stroke, 9-horsepower dirtbike engine. Many man hours and a couple of tweaks later, the motorized La-Z-Boy was ready to hit the road.
Despite the inclusion of a safety harness the chair isn't street legal, which is unfortunate as this chair could be the ultimate ride to school. As we all know, chicks dig convertibles, but real women love men who ride around in heavily padded motorized recliners.
What's Driving This Trend
- Motorized Chairs
- There is a growing trend of building motorized chairs for recreational purposes, presenting opportunities for customization and performance enhancements.
- Personal Mobility
- The development of high-speed motorized chairs showcases a trend towards personalized and unconventional means of transportation, opening up opportunities for innovative mobility solutions.
- Extreme Leisure Vehicles
- The popularity of gas-powered recliners highlights a trend in creating unique and thrilling leisure vehicles, presenting opportunities for niche market exploration and development.
Who This Affects Most
- Recreational Vehicles
- The motorized chair trend can disrupt the recreational vehicles industry by introducing unconventional and high-performance alternatives to traditional options.
- Customization Services
- The demand for personalized motorized chairs creates opportunities in the customization services industry, catering to unique customer preferences and needs.
- Extreme Sports Equipment
- The emergence of gas-powered recliners opens up possibilities for the extreme sports equipment industry to create innovative and thrilling products for niche markets.
