Seqway makes $1 billion in sales

[My Wife Hates CIV]

Originally posted by DanS
MWHC: Get this through your thick skull: It will not be useful to you, if you live in Suburban Hell or out in the middle of BFE.

what?!

[DanS]

BFE = Bum Fvck Egypt. I.e., out in the middle of nowhere.

[My Wife Hates CIV]

I was kidding dude...

[Pekka]

If you don't buy this toy, the terrorists will win.

[reismark]

Originally posted by Pekka
If you don't buy this toy, the terrorists will win.

Seriously, this thing IS gonna change the world. IIRC, this model being sold on Amazon is an INDUSTRIAL model and that a true consumer version (running under a grand, hopefully) will be ready for production in another year

[Pekka]

Well, I don't think this is something straight from the devil. What is making me wondering is the price, it's so high and yet you don't get very much .

So, if people have so much money to throw away for a thing like that.. there's something fundamentally wrong .

[DanS]

Why? We buy all sorts of useless sh!t from Japan.

[Dis]

This would work if we had invented it 100 years ago.

You should all know how resistant america is to change. We love our cars, they aren't going anywhere.

Weather is a serious hazard for this thing. What about when it rains or snows. Hell even a windy day would probably disrupt the control of that thing.

Also the thing is so expensive it will be stolen. bicycle locks can be cut easy. How do we prevent them from being stolen?

[Darius871]

Originally posted by DetroitDave

I 've heard a lot of cities will consider these no different than any other motorizied trans.

Exactly. The thing that confuses me the most about the Segway is that if you really think about it all this thing is juest another electric scooter, and they've been around for decades. I could build a scooter in my garage with some junk I bought at Ax-Man, so why spend $6000 on one of these?

Originally posted by Dissident

Also the thing is so expensive it will be stolen. bicycle locks can be cut easy. How do we prevent them from being stolen?

Don't they just have keys? If they don't I imagine they will once a bunch of them get stolen.

[ColdWizard]

Originally posted by Darius871
Exactly. The thing that confuses me the most about the Segway is that if you really think about it all this thing is juest another electric scooter, and they've been around for decades. I could build a scooter in my garage with some junk I bought at Ax-Man, so why spend $6000 on one of these?

segways don't tip over

[MarkG]

is juest another electric scooter

seen any scooters that you accelerate by leaning forward?

Don't they just have keys?

they do

[FrostyBoy]

The flintstones will soon be the future of America.

Everyone will get so fat, that they'll send themselves backwards into the stone age, and to get fit again, they'll take the engine out of the cars and make you push them.

[Ted Striker]

At first I thought that this was a really dumb invention but then after considering it, I think that it's absolutley brilliant.

The most promising application of this device is for police departments -- coverage problems keep cops off the streets and keeps them in their cars. Now with these things we can have cops "on foot" patrolling a larger number of areas.

I still have some safety concerns with it though.

[Darius871]

Originally posted by MarkG
seen any scooters that you accelerate by leaning forward?

No, a normal scooter just has a small lever to pull. I'm going to pay $5800 more just to get a different mechanism for accelerating?

[FrostyBoy]

The other thing is that no matter who you are, you will look like a dork on it.