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Modern transportation in cities is a very hard problem that we're still trying to solve. At some point Segway looked like it might be what we needed since it lo
by simias 6y ago
Modern transportation in cities is a very hard problem that we're still trying to solve. At some point Segway looked like it might be what we needed since it looked like nothing we had ever tried before. It was small like a bike but you were standing up, it was all electric and super easy to use. It was not really a stretch to imagine that this could be the future of city transportation.
I mean, remember the hyperloop? It solves a different transportation problem, but there are many parallels. When you take the time to think about it you can see that it doesn't really add up, but man if it could it could be amazing.
- hn_throwaway_99 6y ago> At some point Segway looked like it might be what we needed since it looked like nothing we had ever tried before. Really?? We've had stand-up electric scooters since 1915: https://mashable.com/2015/06/15/1916-suffragette-scooter/ https://mashable.com/2015/06/15/1916-suffragette-scooter/ Honestly, it just felt like a ton of tech circle-jerking to me. The gyroscope system on the Segway was really cool, but it was like once it got some good words from some tech luminaries like Steve Jobs, all these other people were like trying to one-up each other saying how revolutionary it was. When it finally came out it was pretty much universally ridiculed by every average joe (not so much ridiculed for what it was, which was a neat scooter, but ridiculed for its unwarranted hype).