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Unread 03-12-2001, 15:47
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one possible future...

One possible future of Segway I can see is a total car-free inner city transportation system. Imagine in the future, when everyone has a Segway, or there are places to rent Segway at the entrance of cities, then people won't need cars to travel within cities.

All the parking would stay outside of city limit, and people would hop on their Segway and go to work, shopping, tour different places, etc... And cars will only use for long distance travel. Imagine how much car-related accidents it can prevent inside cities. We won't need spaces inside cities to build parking lot, and there will definitely less pollution around.

Segway can definitely have a lot of upgrades in the future. Computer guided passages for high speed Segways with internal sensors that allow mass high speed transit within cities, or high ways within cities that control Segway's flow of traffic with computer. Think of how fast efficient they can all move on the high way without many accidents. They were researching this for cars, but I believe it will be way easier to implement for Segways.

And, in writing this, I already realize I have to add the term "Segway" into Word's dictionary.
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