Nothing but a passing fad. It will go the way of the jet packs.
I agree. Hmm. Maybe Segway (synonymous with segue) is that its continuation will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. IOW, maybe people will wake up and see that a bloated government destroys more values than it produces.
This is all too common and you can see how it relates to several other laws and regulations that congress creates in order to justify their parasitical livelihoods and unearned paychecks.
A million mopeds were sold before the government began regulating/licensing/registering requirements of the end user/owner. The manufacturer already had the government breathing down its neck like every other industry. The parasites/politicians allow the field/industry to gain a strong enough foothold to survive the government onslaught.
Then the politicians and bureaucrats swooped in with a vote and the stroke of the pen and began sucking value from the moped industry. The values they suck out can be seen in the cost of owning the moped. The value/money they drain from moped owner is greater than the value of the protection the new regulation/law gives in return. Which is but one major reason why politicians and bureaucrats rightful earned the parasite label.
How long can the host/citizens survive the parasites sucking more and more values from them? Like struggling to ride a bicycle uphill into a head-wind, when the parasites are stripped of their power to suck value from citizens and society is akin to the bicycle rider cresting the top of the hill and taking the free-wheeling ride down the other side.
The experience and values for citizens and society will be like a new industrial revolution compressed into one tenth the time as the last one. And that will natural flourish from the current level of technology which is light years more advanced than when the Industrial Revolution began 240 years ago in Belgium. Well, maybe not light years ahead. After all, they did have the printing press and bicycle but not the steam engine.