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Whatever Happened To Segway

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TimFox:
Segway tours are popular in Chicago and many other cities.
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g35805-Activities-c42-t178-Chicago_Illinois.html

Bryn:
Only ever seen a Segway once in my life, when a shopping centre employee was moving around on one. That was like ten years ago...

Nowadays, at least in the UK, people prefer to look "hip" on those e-scooters...

mendip_discovery:

I think they fell off a cliff after a PR disaster with the CEO.

coppercone2:
sales people use it

ebastler:

--- Quote from: mendip_discovery on July 02, 2023, 10:25:59 am ---I think they fell off a cliff after a PR disaster with the CEO.

--- End quote ---

It was not just a PR desaster -- Jim Heselden,who had taken over Segway a year earlier, literally drove his Segway off a cliff in a 2010 accident.

Not sure whether that triggered Segway's decline. To me it always felt like an over-engineered product, which made its users look a bit dorky. While I don't like the electric scooters either, they seem like a much more pragmatic solution for local transportation. Feels a bit like a repeat of what happened in the PDA market, with the Newton coming early and with an over-engineered and expensive solution, and then Palm taking ocer the market with a pragmatic "good enough" product.

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