From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Thu Nov 14 2002 - 21:14:19 MST
Are you sure they can't stop hard? I got the impression that their
parallel-wheels bely their tricky computerised nature.
The killer for me with them is that they look like a bastard to carry
around. Sure you can go places on one, but what do you do with it when you
get there? Like a bike, they are too big to haul up stairs, onto a bus,
through a shop, but too small to just lock and leave, because someone can
just carry it away. Plus, unlike a bicycle, they are *way* too expensive to
leave locked up with a chain.
I agree that they would be heaps of fun to race. I'd like to see how one
performs going down a seriously steep incline, for a start!
Emlyn
www.emlynoregan.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spike66 [mailto:spike66@attbi.com]
> Sent: Friday, 15 November 2002 2:03 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: segway race
>
>
> Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> > Spike wrote:
> >
> >>Those two-wheeled segway things that Dean Kaman
> >>invented would be a great fun to race, eh?...
> >
> > Given the stupid things people manage to do with completely
> > unpowered skateboards you can hardly imagine the grief they
> > would cause themselves and others with a souped up segway. Robert
>
> Roger that, I meant race them on a track. Im not
> a strong believer that the segway is practical
> transportation for the city anyway. The most obvious
> problem is the inability to stop hard, which is an
> inherent problem with any parallel two wheel arrangement.
>
> But it looks like a fun thing to watch a bunch of
> silly proles racing the things, especially if we work
> out the wearable airbag idea. I could even imagine
> gladiator style segway racing in an arena, or women's
> leagues like roller derby where they intentionally try
> to knock each other off their wheels, perhaps while
> wearing wacky costumes as in American rassling. spike
>
>
>
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