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Not sure about the article’s “world changing” claim but I do love electric scooters. The Segway ES1 is $600 on Amazon - https://amzn.to/2SH2zYh
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I'm not with you on this one. I don't live in California and the amount of electric scooters I've suddenly seen out of nowhere is crazy. It might be a fad, but unlike you, I'm more like 30% thinking it is a fad vs 100%. My reasoning: * Batteries have gotten better than even the basic Segway days * The scooters are portable. You can fold them and take them in to your dorm, apartment, etc, preventing theft. A lot of wo…
Charging inside your house is very dangerous, especially in NA where most houses are wooden. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EljeP5XmETA
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Charging inside your house is very dangerous, especially in NA where most houses are wooden. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EljeP5XmETA
Same is true of cellphones and laptops. It depends on the brand.
These scooter batteries sustain intense charging and discharging cycles, I won't bet my house and life on it.
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Walking is not a universal medicine for someone who has trouble walking. You don't see that person running to catch the bus because they can't. They might not even be able to get to the bus stop. They can't get their own groceries. Sure, you can try to tie this to some generic tangent about 'car culture' or whatever, but the idea that a person (whose health history you know nothing about) being able to exercise their…
This comment is a totally unnecessary distraction. Yes, of course, obviously there's no statement that applies to literally 100% of the population, but that doesn't mean that we should alter everyday language to drone on with endless hedges and caveats in an attempt to cover every combination of human traits. I know you’re coming from a good place, but I think it’s misguided.
I'm not sure how you get that from anything I said. I'm saying that 'lol, yanquis are fat' is not a sensible response to some random story about a person making good use of assistive technologies. It seems like a totally unnecessary distraction that comes from not-a-good place.
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Same is true of cellphones and laptops. It depends on the brand.
1 scooter battery equals several or tens of notebook batteries, mobile devices generally use safer li polymer ones nowadays. These scooter batteries sustain intense charging and discharging cycles, I won't bet my house and life on it.
Obviously, doesn't help without removable batteries, which are more common on ebikes.
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Other than for people with limited mobility, can you help me understand why people think this is so? To me, it seems like evolution solved this problem for us when we became bipedal. It’s entirely possible (even likely) that I could just be a crank, but I genuinely don’t see the point of scooter rentals for healthy, sufficiently mobile people.
A scooter has about the same functionality as an e-bike but can go on sidewalks without seeming nearly as threatening. Use in bike lanes, go 4 times as fast as walking, no sweating like a bicycle, and more portable and much cheaper than an e-bike. If my commute is a mile from a train station on both ends, that is 40 minutes of walking a day. Probably good for your health, but cutting that down to 10 minutes by using…
without seeming nearly as threatening
Scooters are viewed by the riders as less dangerous than bikes. Result: they take more risks, especially risks to pedestrians.
I'm surprised they didn't talk about the crowdfunding campaign they have going for their new e-skate, The Drift https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-drift-w1-experience-s...
Wow. Is this already copied by the Chinese cloners? https://www.amazon.com/Koowheel-Electric-Balancing-Hovershoe...
I see all kinds of people riding exercise bikes in gyms. May they should switch to non-electric scooting instead.
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.
Regarding the other comment: you probably meant "anecdote"
As for my other post—like all comedy, not everyone is going to like every joke. It amuses me that some people think that because they didn't recognise the comedy genius (perhaps it wasn't clever enough) their reaction is to get the endorphins hit that comes from hitting the down-vote button.
Personally I'm glad that I was able to contribute to the regulation of other people's brain chemistry. Hopefully I can make more people feel better about themselves with this post too. Press that button, people!
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A scooter has about the same functionality as an e-bike but can go on sidewalks without seeming nearly as threatening. Use in bike lanes, go 4 times as fast as walking, no sweating like a bicycle, and more portable and much cheaper than an e-bike. If my commute is a mile from a train station on both ends, that is 40 minutes of walking a day. Probably good for your health, but cutting that down to 10 minutes by using…
without seeming nearly as threatening Quite the contrary. Scooters are viewed by the riders as less dangerous than bikes. Result: they take more risks, especially risks to pedestrians.