It has come to this that able bodied men and women need a automated wheelchair to roam around! Wow. That shitty future that movies has shown is really here!
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#42This looks like a huge improvement over a wheelchair (have you ever tried the joystick control on an electric wheelchair?). Way better mobility. And it looks cool. Completely the opposite feeling of watching someone on a Segway, which could make even the coolest person look like a mall cop.
> Segway, which could make even the coolest person look like a mall cop.
That's an curious association - I assume this is because only mall cops (and tourists) tend to use it nowadays? :).
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, that's a New Zealand accent.
New Zealander here, its Australian.
Australian here, suspect he's spent significant time in both countries because the way he says 'this' is not how an Australian accent sounds, but other parts of his speech sound very Australian.
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#45Judging by all the comments here from people who evidently didn't watch the video, they could really use a bit more explanatory text on the home page.
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#47I worry that there might be difficulties leaning over and picking things up without the chair moving.
Imagine dropping something and instinctively leaning over to catch / retrieve it.
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#48Oh god, reminds me of the Wall-E hover chairs used by the humans who have basically ceased moving... https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=wall-e+hover+chairs&tbm=is...
The movie seems to target disabled people, not fat/unhealthy people.
Do you mean the movie as in Wall-E? Because those were just lazy, fat and unhealthy people. They walk at the end of the movie.
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#49I worry that there might be difficulties leaning over and picking things up without the chair moving. Imagine dropping something and instinctively leaning over to catch / retrieve it.
The Q&A video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThwLzeEpP5I shows a switch which disables side-to-side movement (and a joystick which can be used to turn when lean-to-turn is disabled).
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I think the idea is that you can have problems with walking that could be fixed by walking (I am currently in a situation like that after a knee surgery). I cases like that, this would not be a (objectively) helpful device. But I do not consider myself qualified on this topic, as I have no idea how far the obesity problem has gone in the US.
If you have problems with X that could be easily solved by Y, you don't buy device Z instead that makes problem X worse. People aren't that dumb. If they buy Z, they have some other reasons. EDIT nevermind, I'm being stupid here. Too much coffee probably. Commenters below are right.
If Y is a strenuous activity (walking when very overweight), if the problems caused by X (obesity) are mostly long-term, and if Z is a device that offers immediate relief for X's short-term problems, then yes people very often buy Z.
People choose immediate gratification over long-term solutions all the time.