Whatever happened to Segway?

Right, the invention that was going to revolutionize the world!

I see them used by police offers at the airport and at the mall sometimes; they’re useful to get around fairly rapidly.

And i know that in some cities – Boston and Atlanta come to mind – various tour operators do “sightseeing downtown” Segway tours as a special niche market.

But as for the goal of changing the world like they promised – fuggedaboutit.

He drove off a cliff, on a Segway.

The things used to be all over the streets (and sidewalks) here. They were more common than skateboards, and indeed the bike lanes were choked with them. Perhaps it has something to do with covid, but I haven’t seen a Segway in months, not even in the you tube footage of city streets of which there is an unbelievable volume.

I thought they wound up being banned from street traffic, so they declined into really limited use, basically within private grounds such as a museum complex or campus. We see the electric scooters all over the place now, though.

They never were a thing here, and its place is taken by electric scooters

Because those segways just look stupid.

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I think once the owner died going over a cliff, the manufacturer went out of business.

I believe the inventor of the Segway fell to his death on a hillside on his Segway.However, it continued to be manufactured and is used today.

As far as I know, they never got around to outlawing them in San Francisco. My take is that they were just too damned expensive. From what I’ve seen, it looks like other far cheaper devices just crowded Segway out For a while the scooters were ubiquitous nightmares, but now you see a huge variety of electric skateboards (some of which you can convert to scooters), electrified unicycles, boogie boards, bicycles weave in and out of traffic as the city has declared war on automobiles and goes all out in reducing traffic lanes suitable for autos. Driving in the city is now apparently equivalent to a virtual reality videogame.

@si3tech It has stopped production though not as a result of the inventor’s death,

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/segway-stop-production-iconic-two-wheeler-personal-vehicle-n1232050

Kamen didn’t die. It was the guy who bought the company from Kamen who went off the cliff.

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Used to see them in DC but not anymore. Unsure if I will get to see them again. What’s more visible now are rental bikes.

Walking or biking to get around seem to be the trend these days, more than merely standing and balancing on a moving platform.