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The Segway was a bit early, and too expensive, but I would defend it... sort of. Electric micromobility is a pretty huge driver of how people negotiate the mod
by dghlsakjg 2y ago
The Segway was a bit early, and too expensive, but I would defend it... sort of.
Electric micromobility is a pretty huge driver of how people negotiate the modern city. Self-balancing segways, e-skate, e-bike and scooters are all pretty big changes that we are seeing in many modern cityscapes.
Hell, a shared electric bike was just used as a getaway vehicle for an assassination in NYC.
- jpalawaga 2y agoe-/bikes and e-/scooters are big changes to city navigation. e-skate and segways are non-factors. And that's the difference between a good product (ebike or even just plain old bikeshare) and a bad one (segway).
- numpad0 2y agoSegway is just an electric pizza delivery bike _that don't look like one_. That's it. The Segway City is just electric Ho Chi Minh 1995 in style of 2000 Chicago. People wants to die in style so much that they turn blind eyes to plasticky scooters and Nissan Leafs. To them, the ugly attempt don't exist, and the reskinned clones are the first evers in the history. But reality prevails. Brits aren't flying EE Lightning jets anymore. Segways were kind of cool to me too, to be fair. To lesser extent Lime scooters too. Sort of. But they're still just sideways pizza bikes.