[discostu]

Red herring question. The Segway locks up potentially throwing the driver from the vehicle. A plane will glide giving the pilot an opportunity to land or bail, a car wil coast giving the driver a chance to pull over and stop. That's the difference: planes run out of fuel in a way that gives an opportunity for safe recovery, Segways do not. Also planes require many hours of training before one is allowed to fly them, a Segway is supposedly usable right out of the box.

[JohnSmithee]

"That's the difference: planes run out of fuel in a way that gives an opportunity for safe recovery, Segways do not. Also planes require many hours of training before one is allowed to fly them, a Segway is supposedly usable right out of the box."

Considering the complexity of aircraft, there's only so much that can be done to avoid falling out of the sky. The changes to make the Segway safe are rather trivial and have little to do with design limitations.

[American in Israel]

Jets glide like a rock. With thousands of hours on segways with only a couple of failures I wonder how that compares to bicycles? I remember learning a bicycle with box of bandaids. Are we as a society going to fall for the if it ain't safe don't breath garbage? Far as I am concerned if a guy wants to strap a lawnmower with a prop on his arse while wearing rollerscates, fine. I will watch from a distance, might be funny.

But this its dorky, or design error kill it is not the inventive American Spirit that made this country great, it is the politicaly correct, why cant we all be the same, boring mass produced city school dork thought.

Live a little. If this thing did a hundred and fifty miles an hour, hey, now that would be FUN!