I‘m pretty sure it‘s from a region in the wotld were weather is very presictable, typically good, and people go out woth kids only in nice days, because there are so many.

Looks like rain in one of the videos and it'll suffer wear from vibrations as well.

It's a nice, cheap material for prototyping on, and then you can base the cut of a piece of metal or plastic on it for a more permanent solution.