[tlb]

>>> Wasn’t the inventor of those things killed ... by going over a cliff while riding one?

Yes but that wasn’t a design fault in the machine. You drive off a cliff, you have to expect unwanted results.

[Outlaw Woman]

It was quite the thread if I remember correctly. :O

[Gondring]

Dean Kamen is very much alive. You're thinking of Jimi Heselden, OBE, who went off the cliff in trying to be courteous and give more clearance to a dog walker. Mr. Heselden had bought Segway, Inc., but had nothing to do with the invention of that device; he had made his fortune via the development of the "HESCO bastion" gabions used to fight flooding (from Katrina, for example).