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Definatly more overhyped then it should have been...
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quote: He believes the Segway "will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy."
I would say overhyped. He actually thinks 'it' will replace cars. Maybe in cities like NYC where cars are already impractical... but where I live.. everywhere is 15 to 20 miles away and I can't imagine getting there on a scooter looking thing.
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It definetly looks interesting. I'm not disappointed if you can believe it. On the other hand, I never bought any of those rumors saying that it would fly and what not. Can you imagine the stabilization system on that thing going on a battlebot? LOL That would be sweet......
On another note, I can see how this thing can be of use. There is absolutly no bus system where I live and the whole attitude here is, "If you don't have a car, you're fu**ed." At the very least, it will be fun to ride.
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Uh ... MIB, you won't be able to afford one, it's $3k.
From the article, it certainly sounds like its going to be marketed to those who live in the "Big City" ... this way, they won't have to drive their cars and congest the streets (altho, most big-city dwellers -- Boston, NY, etc. -- I know don't *own* cars).
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I think I like Mr. Garrison's version of "IT" much better than this.
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And for three thousand dollars you might as well put a down payment on a car you'll certainly get more out of it than 'it'.
If JeffyK had one of those things do you really think deer would avoid him? They'd laugh if could saying, "Haha where's your Jeep now pizza boy!"
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Thats $3000 at introduction. It'll be dirt cheap within a few years once they lighten it and find substitute parts and stuff like that. Just like computers.
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I like it! The balance systems seem cool and they've obviously been putting a lot of effort into making it environmental and energy-efficient, riding for 20+ hours for "five cent's worth of electricity". Of course it will be expensive in the beginning, before more factories start building it.
I just hope people in the automobile-industry won't try and destroy the franchise in a misguided attempt to protect sales...
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If it used anti-gravity technology, our government would be all over it so fast it would make your head spin and we would never hear of it ever again.
As for how it works, according to what I have read, once you imagine it doing whatever you want it to do, you make slight balance shifts. Ginger detects these balance shifts and.....well....the rest is pretty obvious.
P.S. I just saw the unvieling on Good Morning America. It looks like it would be fun to ride. Ginger will deinetly be great for larger cities. Unfortunatly, the shit-hole town I live in doesn't even have sidewalks. Apparently the hicks here think that sidewalks are the work of the devil or something.
quote:Originally posted by Mojo Jojo: Exactly how does it move, then?
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The Segway has 2 small electric motors moving the axle. If one fails, the other can still run the wheels.
The same applies to the system's "sisterboards", two identical motherboards then run the entire machine. If one fails, the other can still run the vehicle perfectly.
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