Segways banned in Britain

[Kims Robot]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

The Segway can not do that. There are no training wheels or kickstands on both sides that automatically deploy to keep the Segway upright if its control system fails.

Just as an interesting note, the other day at a BSO concert, I saw an old guy on a segway that had some odd training wheel type contraptions. It looked like the effect of building in two extra wheels so that the segway didnt have to self balance (it kills the technology a little, and Im sure immobilizes the capabilities a bit, but I dont think I would have wanted to see this teetering old guy on a self balancing segway!).

Now what I dont get is that (by doing a quick google search), nearly 21,000 people were KILLED in car accidents, and another 3,000 in motorcycle accidents in 2000. 5,000 pedestrians were killed by cars in the same year! Yet we dont ban cars or motorcycles... How many people have you heard killed by segways? We simply make laws to register & insure your vehicles... why cant the segway fall in the same category? It seems silly to ban something that most of us know very little about, and very little research has been done & published.