> The Segway was just never useful enough and it cost so much. E-bikes, electric kick-scooters, electric long-boards, etc. are all showing that there's a big ma

> The Segway was just never useful enough and it cost so much. E-bikes, electric kick-scooters, electric long-boards, etc. are all showing that there's a big market for mid-speed mobility tech. There just wasn't a market for Segways. Of course it's not like these ideas were just waiting around for the taking when the Segway came out. Battery tech has gotten a lot better in the years since the introduction of the Segway, and a lot more is possible at various price points than it was at the time. It's clear that the Segway doesn't match up well against any of these lower cost devices today, but this class of device wasn't possible at a competitive price point when the Segway was released, either. It's obviously not competitive now, but I'm not sure there was an alternative / more successful approach available when the Segway was released. The strongest case against the Segway, I suppose, is that "maybe it should have been a really expensive bicycle instead of a really expensive scooter," but I'm not sure it would have done any better. It's fundamentally the "really expensive" part that was always going to be a limiting factor, and there was no way around that.