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Check out videos on youtube and you'll see why this never caught on, it's basically a death trap that isn't suitable for sharing the road with cars. http://www
by InclinedPlane 13y ago
Check out videos on youtube and you'll see why this never caught on, it's basically a death trap that isn't suitable for sharing the road with cars.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=c5+sinclair&page=&utm_source=opensearch http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=c5+sinclair&page...
These days you're much better off just buying an electric scooter or motorcycle or a modern electric automobile like a Tesla.
- michaelt 13y agoThey sold 17,000 of them - for a death trap, would you expect them to have zero deaths? Because [1] says there were zero deaths. I put it to you the C5 is no stupider than a segway, and at one tenth the cost. [1] http://www.crashonline.org.uk/19/sinclar5.htm http://www.crashonline.org.uk/19/sinclar5.htm
- InclinedPlane 13y agoHow many have actually been used those? You don't see them on the roads which would indicate very few of them actually in use. Also, "no stupider than a segway" is not a selling point for anything.
- so_whaaaat 13y agoYeah, but segways are incredibly fucking stupid. So stupid, in fact, that pretty much only TSA officers (effectively the hall monitors of America's airports) are pretty much the only people who feel comfortable being seen on one. Think about that.
- jared314 13y agoLooking at the price on the wikipedia page, and accounting for inflation, it looks like the C5 was actually one-third the cost of a new Segway. $1707.44 in today's dollars.
- revelation 13y agoRecumbent bicycles aren't exactly a death trap and most owners use them as their primary transportation. Then again lithium ion batteries have improved so much you no longer need the aerodynamics to make it work, and electric scooters (and motorcycles) exist for that very reason.