Segways are fun.
Segways are cool.
I've ridden several versions, starting with one of the early Gingers in 1996. A couple of summers back, I hired an intern to build a low-cost Segway-like personal mobility device as a showcase for some motors and controllers that we were developing at the time. As a life-long nerd, I am inexorably drawn to the mystique of the technical.
But my favorite ride is still a bicycle. There's no machine that can match it for autonomy, efficiency, reliability, and sheer technological coolness.
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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)