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Segway was supposed to change the world. Two decades later, it just might

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Re: Segway was supposed to change the world. Two decades later, it just might

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ohh another hot air bubble product.. "electric scooters" ... that will pass too.

what we really need is updated modern public transportion network, high speed electric trains/ efficient transportation hubs..... not bicycles and scooters LMAO !! This is a 21st century! Why are we going backwards? They make a good toy though.

Re: Segway was supposed to change the world. Two decades later, it just might

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ohh another hot air bubble product.. "electric scooters" ... that will pass too. what we really need is updated modern public transportion network, high speed electric trains/ efficient transportation hubs..... not bicycles and scooters LMAO !! This is a 21st century! Why are we going backwards? They make a good toy though.

You expect a high speed train station outside your front door? Awfully optimistic of you.

Re: Segway was supposed to change the world. Two decades later, it just might

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ohh another hot air bubble product.. "electric scooters" ... that will pass too. what we really need is updated modern public transportion network, high speed electric trains/ efficient transportation hubs..... not bicycles and scooters LMAO !! This is a 21st century! Why are we going backwards? They make a good toy though.

It's a ridiculous headline that's for sure.

Electrified personal transport can help with the last mile but it's of no use if you never get to the last mile without a car.

Also, it's a scooter, "change the world"? If they mean by changing it from having x scooters on the market to x+1 scooters on the market then yes.

Re: Segway was supposed to change the world. Two decades later, it just might

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ohh another hot air bubble product.. "electric scooters" ... that will pass too. what we really need is updated modern public transportion network, high speed electric trains/ efficient transportation hubs..... not bicycles and scooters LMAO !! This is a 21st century! Why are we going backwards? They make a good toy though.

You expect a high speed train station outside your front door? Awfully optimistic of you.

Little need for high speed rail when you’re talking about daily commuting. Personally may last five apartments have all been in short as in under five minute walking distance of a subway, that’s the advantage of living in high density areas.

Re: Segway was supposed to change the world. Two decades later, it just might

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ohh another hot air bubble product.. "electric scooters" ... that will pass too. what we really need is updated modern public transportion network, high speed electric trains/ efficient transportation hubs..... not bicycles and scooters LMAO !! This is a 21st century! Why are we going backwards? They make a good toy though.

Personal electric vehicles are completely symbiotic with public transit, that's why they're called "last mile" vehicles; because you take mass transit to within a mile or two, and then hop on your scooter, e-board, EUC to go the rest of the way.

Re: Segway was supposed to change the world. Two decades later, it just might

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One thing I didn't understand here was, what exactly does Segway have to do with electric scooters in the first place? Why do scooters need the fancy self-balancing tech from the original Segway, or, if that's not what it's doing, what are they doing? Surely it's not something as lame as having a bunch of patents on the idea of sticking a battery in a scooter?

Re: Segway was supposed to change the world. Two decades later, it just might

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I really don't know what's happening with Segway, but an antidote:

I was at the grocery store, and an older lady was riding one of those cheap-looking hover board type contraptions inside the store - except that there was a post, and seat attached to it. She was whizzing all over the place on it with ease and grace. It was an excellent sight.

Re: Segway was supposed to change the world. Two decades later, it just might

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You expect a high speed train station outside your front door? Awfully optimistic of you.

Little need for high speed rail when you’re talking about daily commuting. Personally may last five apartments have all been in short as in under five minute walking distance of a subway, that’s the advantage of living in high density areas.

Come to Detroit where our only public transport options are "SMART" (slow) buses, the Detroit People Mover (a joke that barely circles a small area downtown), and the newly built Q-line that travels only a few miles straight back and forth.

IMO the addition of birds and limes has been really nice.

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