Thread: Segways Recalled
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Unread 27-09-2003, 20:02
DougHogg DougHogg is offline
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Originally posted by AJ Quick
Heres an idea, install electric shock buzzers in the handles.

Or another.. how about the Segway stops moving after it gives the alert, and uses all its power left to keep it upright?
I think that your second idea above is a winner. I would consider submitting it to the company.

Maybe there could be three stages: a battery-low buzzer, a "charge your Segway now" buzzer, and a "really sorry, that's as far as we go" setting as in your suggestion.

The Segway is actually being used as a robotics research platform, but I guess that could have it's own thread:

http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/programs/mars/rmp.htm
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