Bicycles enjoy a kind of special status in the US when it comes to tort law and manufacturer liability that is shared with many other older designs. People know

Bicycles enjoy a kind of special status in the US when it comes to tort law and manufacturer liability that is shared with many other older designs. People know they are dangerous and automatically accept this. Things like table saws, ladders, kitchen knives, and roller skates are other examples of things that fit this category. Inventors of this type of device face a steep uphill climb in the litigious climate of today's United States because its so completely different than traditional bikes. I'm not saying its impossible, I'm just saying that things like this will be magnets for the lawsuit-lottery. I wonder what the ratio of lawsuits/Segway vs. lawsuits/Schwinn happens to be...