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Clearly someone hasn't read PG's The Trouble With The Segway: http://paulgraham.com/segway.html http://paulgraham.com/segway.html
by anateus 16y ago
Clearly someone hasn't read PG's The Trouble With The Segway: http://paulgraham.com/segway.html http://paulgraham.com/segway.html
- gjm11 16y agoPG says: "Someone riding a motorcycle isn't working any harder. But because he's sitting astride it, he seems to be making an effort. When you're riding a Segway you're just standing there." and: "So there may be a way to capture more of the market Segway hoped to reach: make a version that doesn't look so easy for the rider. It would also be helpful if the styling was in the tradition of skateboards or bicycles rather than medical devices." This thing does in fact look rather like a bicycle, and the rider does sit astride it. Perhaps the YikeBike people have read PG's note about the Segway. On the other hand, I think it still makes it look as if the rider is "too lazy to walk". If that (rather than, say, the $3600 price tag) makes the YikeBike fail, then it'll indicate that PG's basic analysis was right even though his proposed ways of solving the problem were wrong.
- arethuza 16y ago"When he rides the Eunicycle, people smile at him" There is a chap who commutes through central Edinburgh on a unicycle and it does indeed cheer me up every time I see him.