[traumer]

"The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall Friday, saying that three people had been injured. One suffered a head wound and needed stitches...."

Paging my lawyers !!

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

Better to play it safe and just get one of these babies!

[dogbrain]

[SamAdams76]

The "dork" factor killed the Segway in my opinion. The decision by Kamen (or his marketing dept.) to feature riders of the Segway in bicycle helmets in publicity photos was a disaster. Unless you have an athletic build and you are actually riding a real bicycle in full biking gear, a bicycle helmet makes you look like a dork - period. BTW, there is no way an overweight person will ever look like anything other than a dork with either a bicycle or a bicycle helmet.

Finally, if these things are supposed to be so safe, why the need for crash helmets in the first place?

I think Kamen would have had more success with these things if there was a low-key rollout. Quietly put a few out here and there and let the buzz and word-of-mouth spread. Imagine leasing a kiosk at Disneyland or some other huge theme park and renting them out for the day with a free 15-minute lesson. That would have been very successful in my opinion and it also would have given the engineers a controlled opportunity to see how these things hold up under heavy use and work out the bugs.

[sully777]

There was a picture of President Bush falling off a segway in Maine this summer. The esablishment laughed at his supposed clumsiness and quipped at his stupidity, "Only Dubya could fall off a Segway!"

Appears they were wrong.

[RightWhale]

The original design, two wheels, one in front, one in back, with either pedal power or a motor, seems to work just fine. A lot of designs were tried over the years, including this side by side configuration, but only the design with the upward-curved front fork seems to have stood the test of time. Nature prefers certain designs: Segway isn't Nature-approved.

[rs79bm]

Leave it to the Consumer Product Safety Commission to recall something AFTER IT HAS ALREADY BEEN ON THE MARKEY FOR 2 YEARS. You would have thought they would have done their research before people starting getting hurt and possibly killed on the damn things. That is one of the biggest problems with all Government organizations, including this organization as well as the FDA. They only recall something after they have infiltrated into our society and caused untold damage to citizens.

[BSunday]

All Segways recalled

Late night show host: "Speaking of transportation...Hey, what the heck are you doing ?"

Plain clothes police officer confiscating microphone: "I'm sorry sir, all segue's are being recalled."

[Final Authority]

All the makers of airplanes need to recall their aircraft because they tend to fall out of the sky when they run out of fuel.

I must say, It is fitting that this is the end of Kaymen's 15 minutes of fame. From direct experience, he has been an arrogant player in the arena of technology. You only need to talk with all the engineers and technicians who have designed and built the machines of his desires and dreams. Apparently, he comes across as a know-it-all, requires major technical support, and at the same time takes all of the credit.

I always thought the Segway wasn't going anywhere and now it still won't.

[Bobby777]

Cap'n! ... the dilithium crystals are deteriorating! and there's nothin' I can do about it! I canno change the laws of physics!

[SpinyNorman]

Couldn't they just snap some training wheels on that thing? How about a battery charge indicator?

[Jack Wilson]

Its a good thing the Consumer Product Safety Commission wasn't around during the days of the Model T.

[baseballfanjm]

I recall an episode of Jay Leno where they had this Segway guy on. They also had Russell Crowe. Crowe had to ride the scooter. I think he started to hate the Segway guy. It was quite funny.

[PJ-Comix]

I rode a Segway once. They aren't all that safe.

[4Freedom]

Mark for later reading.

[prisoner6]

Oh...but the Segway is sooooo...last millenium tech. I want one of these...

Go here for more Design Explorations

Of here for the company website Bombardier

And it's from Canada of all places...sigh

prisoner6

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I'm waiting for the Hydrogen version of the Segway which I'll be able to re-fuel every twenty miles in California at Arnold's re-fueling stations.