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My dad works/ed at the Post Office (since Sept 11th he has been active duty), and has talked to some people on my request about the Segway tests. This is what I have gathered.
The first round of testing was done in flat areas with nice weather conditions. If it didn't work there, it wouldn't work anywhere. It worked very well in Florida and New Hampshire.
The benifets come from where the postal worker walks the route. S/he carries a bag with the mail and then back to the truck, and moves, then carries another bag of mail, repeat. The Segway has allowed the carrier to go nearly twice as far from the truck, in the same or less time as the previous shorter distance.
This is in addition to the carrier not having to lug around all that weight.
What the people that my dad talked too are saying is that the Segway looks really prommising in a real world implementation.
Wetzel
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Next is clean water.
Any takers?
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