I'm fascinated by how few of you agree that it failed because it looks smug. It seems so obvious! People on Segways look like they feel entitled to coast around

I'm fascinated by how few of you agree that it failed because it looks smug. It seems so obvious! People on Segways look like they feel entitled to coast around standing at a podium, a mobile soapbox. That's it, plain and simple. Price: irrelevant. Utility: irrelevant. Inspiring instinctual revulsion in onlookers: relevant. It's the vehicular embodiment of Comic Book Guy's voice. Edit: This is probably why a lot of geeks have a blind spot here. Edit2: And it's not the laziness or uncoolness of it that's the problem either. Take the goddam Hoverround -- if anything's worthy of scorn, it is. And yet it sells like crazy. No, the exact, specific problem with the Segway is you look like you're standing at a podium.