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Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil
Dean Kamen and the folks at Segway will have to think of something to get them around what the Segway really is: a high-tech Honda motor scooter.
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I think not....
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Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil
Astronouth7303,
The Segway website lists Massachusetts as a state that does "not allow use of powered conveyances on sidewalks and bike paths." However, I would be inclined to think that the motorized scooter used by a handicapped person wouldn't fall under this category. I think there's a distinct difference between someone using a motorized scooter that travels at about 5 MPH because they are handicapped and a normal person using a Segway which has the potential of traveling at 13 MPH.
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So, if you are handicapped and use a Segway you automatically use it at 5mph? (I think that is called stereotyping dude...)
I think not.. Seriously, if I were handicapped and then a Segway were given to me and it was a chance at mobility that I lost from being handicapped, I would speed down the sidewalks all day long certainly not going 5mph on an open stretch of sidewalk...
Do you go the same speed on a highway when there are a ton of cars than when there is a open stretch of road??? Well, I don't....
Same thing with a sidewalk.. It's really just another piece of commuting real estate.
(Then again.. maybe it's just cause I am a guy. Maybe there is something to that car insurance male/female rate difference after all..... NAH!!!)