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Segway history: the rise and fall (2018)
- ggm 4y agoHype machine. The amount of "is THAT it" when "ginger" patent drawings leaked was amazing. Pons & Fleischmann cold fusion or Clive Sinclair electric car levels of insane hype. If you let the PR machine run loose you get that. Extreme secrecy fed it. Gingers lead patent holder was IPR theft paranoid. Rode one, had fun. It was doomed. The irony of how craptacular scooters are, and in my city ubiquitously hired, even with deaths in city, as predicted for Segway. Timing is everything. See segway tours here, still. They're working it. It did not revolutionise public transport directly. It did have a lasting consequence (scooters)