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Re: Ogo, a new take on personal transportation

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I appreciate your healthy outlook toward your hearing loss. With my family background, it seems inevitable that my hearing will continue to get worse than it already is. I want to take your attitude as an inspiration rather than the less healthy attitudes that I often see.

It's interesting that glasses, sitting in the middle of your face are seen as less of an issue than hearing aids. It's really just a random whim of fashion. I think this may change soon. It will almost certainly change if a device targeting non-impaired gets any traction.

I'm not so sure that it's a simple matter of fashion.

Wearing glasses is, for lack of a better term, 'normal'. I don't know the statistics but probably a quarter of the population has impaired sight (I'm one of them). Additionally in the majority of cases it presents no handicap at all once corrected - often it results in acuity above the average.

Re: Ogo, a new take on personal transportation

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The video is presumably made to be shared amongst a wider audience than the target market. And I guess that for a disabled person it would be a huge psychological win to have able-bodied people looking with envy rather than sympathy at their means of locomotion.

I wonder if it's just for disabled people. It's essentially a sitting Segway. There are certain jobs for which the added height of a Segway is key; crowd control being one. However, one of the biggest issues with Segway are accidents. This would all but eliminate them based on the user being seated. If you lived in a warm climate and work was 10km or less away with bike lanes........this would appear to be an interes…

If biking is too hard, why not ride an electric scooter or something? This chair seems great, but it's probably far from optimal for commuting.

Re: Ogo, a new take on personal transportation

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Looks very cool. One thing I noticed about the video introduction is the speaker is explicitly talking to the viewer as if he or she is not the target audience, e.g. "while you and I may take this for granted ..." and "the disabled are exactly the same as you and me ..."

Also, when he says "a disabled" is quite cringeworthy. You're supposed to say "person with disabilities" because it's not a "label", just a description of a normal person who happens to have different transportation needs.

Come on. This guy spent thousands of hours designing a tool to make life better for people who can't walk, and all you care about is his choice of words?

Re: Ogo, a new take on personal transportation

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One downside I can see for this: it looks like, if the user had a seizure, it would be extremely dangerous. It would keep them in the seat but interpret their movements as erratic hard accelerations and sharp turns.

It probably doesn't require a seizure to become dangerous. Don't sneeze while waiting to cross the road, I guess.

Re: Ogo, a new take on personal transportation

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Judging 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.

Video is a bad way to convey information on a website, especially one targeting disabled folks.

Based on the language in the video, the video isn't targeting disabled folks.
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