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Post by the weiner posse on Feb 4, 2006 20:29:46 GMT -5
www.segway.com/video/what are people's thoughts on the segway...? aren't they like four grand...? they are electric... they don't do anything for excercise...which oddly enough...no overweight people seem to be in the video... perhaps everyone segways themselves to the gym...
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Post by david on Feb 6, 2006 22:29:42 GMT -5
Nope, no bicycles. Did have a car hitch to haul your Segway's lazy a around though!
The dude about hinged the roof of his helmet getting on and off the subway . . . ouch!
Have to admit a street full of these is, after all, a less jarring thought than a street full of cars . . . but then I'm just another anti-car freak, right? Unreasonably expecting a human invention actually to be humane, to avoid gratuitous damage to our living planet, to allow human interaction . . .
But we can't exert our bodies, we have to look professional, whoops I guess wearing that helmet on your Segway ruins that prospect too.
Hell we can even bash the trails . . . hope they're safer than 3-wheelers.
It is a marvel of technology, that balancing. It'd be cool to borrow one and try to upset its balance -- somebody was doing a one-wheel corner, hey are they s'posed to do that like right out of the box, no mods?
And after an intense day of Segwaying we can stop by the drinking fountain without even stepping off the machine. Hmmm . . . sounds kind of like a bicycle . . .
Imagine trying to courier on one of these?
Yeah it's pretty smooth pedestrian-ish-ness but unless it replaces a car it's a pretty darned high premium for the ride (and if you're car-free to start with then just use a bicycle . . . high-grade commuter bikes for a fourth of the initial cost and no plugging into the wall) but I'm sure plenty of people will find a use/reason/excuse to have one.
P.S. afterwards I guess many commuters do plug in their light battery at night . . . you get my gist though . . .
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Post by the weiner posse on Jul 12, 2006 8:52:57 GMT -5
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Post by the weiner posse on Sept 27, 2006 20:58:05 GMT -5
Segway recalls scooters; problem causes riders to fall off
Michael P. Regan, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Segway Inc. is recalling all 23,500 of the self-balancing scooters it has shipped to date because of a software glitch that can make its wheels unexpectedly reverse direction, causing riders to fall off.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is cooperating with Segway on the voluntary recall announced Thursday, said consumers should stop using the vehicles immediately.
Segway has received six reports of problems with the Personal Transporter, resulting in head and wrist injuries. The vehicles were previously known as the Human Transporter.
Segway is offering a free software upgrade that will fix the problem. The upgrades will be done at Segway's 100 dealerships and service centers around the world, according to Segway spokeswoman Carla Vallone, and the company based in Bedford, N.H., will pay to ship the devices to the appropriate center if need be.
It is the second time the scooters, which sell for about $4,000 to $5,500, have been recalled since they first went on sale in 2002. The 2003 recall involved the first 6,000 of the devices sold, and involved a problem that could cause riders to fall off the device when its battery ran out of juice.
Segway Chief Technology Officer Doug Field, who has been involved with the development of the device since its earliest days, said the problem that sparked the latest recall was found while the company was testing its new model. He said a very unusual and specific set of conditions can cause the problem.
The scooter's speed is determined by how far forward the user leans, and if the rider leans too far forward, a "speed limiter" pushes them back to keep the device at its maximum speed of 12.5 mph. The problem happens after the speed limiter tilts back, the rider steps off the device and then gets back on it quickly.
Field said the actions that would cause the problem are of "very low probability, but possible, which then made us go pull every reported accident in the company's history." After the company found the six incidents believed to be related to the problem, it notified the CPSC and got the ball rolling on the recall, Field said.
Field and Segway Chief Executive Jim Norrod would not comment on whether the problem has sparked any lawsuits, and would not give any details of the injuries sustained.
"Any injury is too much to us," said Norrod.
The most famous tumble from a Segway came in 2003, when President Bush tried one out at his family's estate in Maine. The device went down on his first attempt, but Bush stayed on his feet with an awkward hop over the scooter. He quickly got back onboard and was soon cruising around the driveway on the Segway.
©2006 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.
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Post by gpickle on Sept 28, 2006 8:52:46 GMT -5
After careful consideration and consultation with myself and the Iowa State Board of Regents I hereby make known through proclamation of impressive scientific sounding language that the Segway, while it made for some great NPR Science Friday shows a few years back, is a solution to a problem that does not exist. Like carbon fiber components.
Henceforth when encountering a Segway be it under a police officer, head of state, rock and/or roll star, overpriveliged college student or even me it is the duty of all who know better to yell at said Segway rider to, "GET A BIKE!"
So it was typed, so it shall be...
gpickle
September 28, 2006
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Post by lazybee45 on Oct 20, 2006 22:35:12 GMT -5
If you want a scooter, you can go to Wal Mart, and get somethign with EXACTLY the same in purpose and ability as a SEGWAY scooter, that will cost you about $100 or less! the problem is that the ugly and overly complex Seqway is the vehicluar equivalent of the "engineers safety pin" a few years back, someone pointed out that the humble sfety pin was an invention that OBVIOUSLY had not been designed by an engineer. Because if an engineer had gotten hold of it, the pin would have 129 moving parts, require servicing at a special facility every 6 months and cost $895 each. I have no less than 3 Kick type scooters in my garage (not to mention 6 or 8 bicycles 5 trikes and an antique sociable tandem trike) EVERY ONE OF WHICH WORKS BETTER THAN A SEGWAY in EVERY POSSIBLE WAY from ease of operation to carrying capacity to cost savings and ease of maintainence! I even have an electric assist bicycle that can use EITHER electric power or pedal power or both together! Range is a max of 30 miles (so far) on teh power and nearly unlimited on the pedal power! It cost me what, ...$40 to build and $300 for the e-motor and solar charging panel!
Segways are a neat Geek toy (oh, I would love to have one to play with!) but they are no where NEAR practical for anything but inside building operations such as warehouses and such. and in that case, my Trikke kick scooter is faster, and cheaper and more reliable! ($100 vs $3500!) and you don't have to charge it up!
bah!
humbug!
mark
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Post by the weiner posse on Oct 21, 2006 20:35:32 GMT -5
yeah but...
you still have to expend energy to propel a kick scooter...
therein lies the problem with that crazy idea...!
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Post by the weiner posse on Oct 31, 2006 9:43:27 GMT -5
www.uberreview.com/2006/04/the-dangers-of-segway-polo.htm/ The Dangers Of Segway Polo  When it comes to the Segway polo scene, no one is more feared than Mr.Steve “The Woz” Wozniak, co-founder of Apple computers. He often shows up in his Hummer, hauling four Segways in the back and ready to kick some polo butt. The Segaway polo crowd put on a demo at the Maker Faire and CNet caught the Woz in action. His opponents are not the only ones who should be afraid but innocent bystanders should be on the look out for his deadly shot. You never know when you are going to get beaned in the head when the Woz is at the peak of his game.
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Post by jay on Oct 31, 2006 13:37:30 GMT -5
There's nothing funnier than a fat guy on a Segway.
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Post by chenshui on Jun 23, 2011 2:12:18 GMT -5
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