24 Replies to “Wokemobile Goes Broke”

  1. I wonder did alcohol consumption have anything to do with it or was it just a useless piece of junk?

  2. Last segway i saw was used by that Tranny who attacked the reporter a few posts down.

    1. When the high point in the life of Segway was in the movie “Mall Cop” where a fat, dumb, beta-male, screw-up was featured as a sleuth on a Seqway … Who want’s to identify with that?

      They should have put Dwayne Johnson on it … then you’d get some sales.

      1. Chess is racist. Bridge is racist. Math is racist. STEM is racist. Equality of result, that’s what we want!
        Basketball is not racist. Football is not racist. Track is not racist. Those are purely determined on the basis of ability, nothing else. On the other hand, swimming and diving are racist. Hockey is racist.
        Actually when I was in college, the best chess player I knew personally was black, but we hardly played at grand master level, let alone international grand master. This guy in the article plays for a local club, how good can he be, and Sweden is hardly a hotbed of chess. Funny the article never mentioned his rating.

        1. Apparently everything that requires thought and work, physical or mental, is racist. Skill is racist, be it an electrician, plumber, or a carpenter, is racist. IQs over 80 are racist.

  4. They’re kinda fun, though. Sped through Rome many years ago on one. You not only beat the crowd, you can make them scatter. We had a great look at the Trevi Fountain.

    Well, until my friend spun out on a hundred year old manhole cover and broke a hip.

    But I had fun that’s what is important.

  6. You could say it was all downhill after its creator careened himself off a cliff on one.

  7. From the article, the inventor thought it would become an urban mobile unit for commuting to and from work. Would NOT like to use it in any Canadian winter. Tremendous cold on the Prairies, lots of snow in the snowbelt areas of Ontario and Quebec, lots of rain on Vancouver Island and the city of Vancouver and terrific Nor-Easters in the Maritimes.
    Possibly could have been used in southern States, but as only 140,000 units were sold in 19 years, clearly was a novelty item.

  9. The Segway may be gone, and they did look like fun. The balancing tech is being used in wheelchair design to allow a wheelchair bound person to rise up to face level, improving their quality of life. I believe it was also used in those junky balancing sideways skateboard things that kept having battery meltdowns. I’m sure the tech will be useful for a number of applications in the future. So currently an expensive novelty toy, and if we ever get to actually have a future is a very debatable point!

  10. And here I was pondering what could be better than an inexpensive rain coat?
    Guess I’m a boomer.

  12. I wonder how much of the battery power is wasted on the balancing act.

    if it had 3 wheels or 4, all the energy would be used to go forward.

    but the balancing act probably uses half the energy and serves NO purpose.

    oh yes it is impressive like a clown spinning plates at the end of long sticks, oh yes it probably made a lot of people want to buy one, but stop and think ; why would you want a vehicle that wastes half its power on doing something useless?

    the balancing act served no purpose.

    and made the vehicle MUCH more dangerous than a 3 or 4 wheel similar vehicle.

    the segway is/was an accident waiting to happen.

    I always found the balancing act to be ridiculous.

  13. The comparison to the Macintosh is unfortunate, for the Macintosh really did deliver on its promises. I had a Mac IIci in 1986 that was amazingly user friendly. Not hobbled by the archaic “.txt” or whatever file naming convention, I could move a file anywhere and the OS would find it. My present day Windows machine can’t do that simple trick, 34 years later. I could connect to any Mac on the local network easy, through Apple Talk. Even today, finding another Windows machine on the net is not exactly easy. I still have that Mac, and if it wasn’t handicapped by a 40mhz processor, I’d still be using it today.

  14. I always considered it as a toy-like curiosity. I always thought “I’d like to try one, but I’d never buy one.”
    With total sales of less than 150-thousand (over a 20 year period) it appears very few people were more than curious.

  15. My better half and I took a tour of San Juan on Segways. The guide was a Ukrainian gal married to a Puerto Rican. We had a terrific afternoon. Those suckers can go anywhere. I understand the skepticism, but they were snazzy machines.

  16. I have a relative with a serious heart condition who cannot walk 20 paces without jeopardizing his life. He travels with a Segway, and it gives him freedom of mobility… to get out and see the world … instead of sitting inside watching tv and dying. Thanks Segway … you were a great “medical device”

  17. I remember the build-up to its debut. There were rumours of a device that would be the “next big thing”. When the announcement was made, the response was usually “Huh?”

    1. Exactly. My response was … “seriously!? That’s it? That’s gonna “change the world”? That’s the “game changer”? Not likely.

  18. They’re illegal in New South Wales, though not nationwide in Australia… Never appealed to me, and I guess it’s moot now… I do enjoy the irony that one killed the guy marketing them, as cited above; but that’s just because I’m an unpleasant person, with all the charm of a prehistoric reptile…

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