Segway Glides as Gasoline Jumps

[phantom power]

With gasoline prices and global warming on their minds, more Americans are getting out of their cars and riding to work -- and riding on the job -- on the once-maligned Segway.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121357738002676071.html

[meegbear]

1. The once-maligned?

That thing was the bees knees, until president Fucktard fell off it and you never heard about it since.

That guy can screw up a wet dream.

[phantom power]

4. My recollection is the price-tag was a major turnoff.

[Clovis Sangrail]

5. the biggest problem with Segways is the price

if they made those things cost ~ $1k people would be snatching them up like hot cakes.
For most people any transport that costs $5-6k needs to be able to at least carry groceries and the odd passenger.

[DS1]

2. Meanwhile, condom sales plummet

[Auggie]

3. They are banned in San Francisco

http://www.walksf.org/segways/

[Greyskye]

6. There has been one around work recently

There has been a guy tooling around on one of these here at work. I work on a very big site - we have 7 large multistory buildings (plus some non-office facility buildings).



For someone who, for whatever reason, needs to be constantly going from one end of the site to the other, this would be very cool. :)

[phantom power]

7. I noticed security (police?) using them at Phoenix Sky Harbor last week.

The first one I'd seen in years.

[tinrobot]

8. For $5,000 a pop, you'd be better off with an electric scooter.

This one has twice the range and twice the speed for half the price:


http://www.electricmotorsport.com/store/ems_electric_scooters_evt_equinox.php

Plus you don't look like a dork when you're riding it. You could even add some mirrors for the Quadrophenia look.