23-08-2006, 12:22
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I live for the details.
 FRC #3620 (Average Joes) Team Role: Engineer
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Rookie Year: 1996
Location: Southwestern Michigan
Posts: 3,665
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Re: Segways banned in Britain
These sections of the FOX article really stand out:
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In Britain, the Department for Transport has welcomed the scooter with a double whammy, invoking the Highway Act of 1835 to ban it from sidewalks and EU vehicle-certification rules to keep it off roads. ...
Andy Hughes, a spokesman, said that four officials attended a testing session, three of whom refused to ride it. The fourth traveled only 100 yards.
"The department seems reluctant to accept new technology, and there is a degree of [butt]-covering in the regulations," Hughes said.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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