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Segway's big fault was that it was just way too expensive. These small scooters are eventually proving the dream, mostly because normal people can actually aff
by jandrese 6y ago
Segway's big fault was that it was just way too expensive. These small scooters are eventually proving the dream, mostly because normal people can actually afford them.
- ghaff 6y agoPrice was part of it but even the company thought that they really needed to be used on sidewalks and they spent a lot of money and effort lobbying for that to be legal. (Though to be fair bike lanes were less common in the US at the time.)
- jandrese 6y agoAs opposed to these scooter companies that just YOLOed the whole sidewalk situation and figured they would be too popular to ban once the courts/city councils finally got around to deciding what to do.