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Post number 13893

Steven Den Beste — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 06:22:26 -0800

This is what the Segway should have been. (It's still in prototype but it works.)

By: tomplus2

tomplus2 — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 06:32:17 -0800

....at least this thing finally got off the ground (19 second test flight). Dang, its noisy.

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 06:40:18 -0800

They've been showing stuff like this in the "What's New" section of Popular Mechanics for about 30 years now. They'll be showing it for another 30 years.

By: LinemanBear

LinemanBear — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 06:41:19 -0800

Don't stretch your arms above your head. OUCH!

By: bshort

bshort — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 07:25:06 -0800

Yeah, I don't think I'd want two enormous fans so close to my head. And besides, flying vehicles that are actually flown by a pilot (as opposed to some sort of automatic flight control) will just never be a reality for the vast majority of the populace. They're too dangerous, and the consequences of a failure (whether hardware, or by the pilot) are disastrous. Not to mention, just think of the security problems if you have to protect against people approaching a target from the air. You'd have to put things like the White House in some sort of hermetically sealed bubble.

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 07:33:39 -0800

Wow, that is the most exciting website on the planet!

By: tiaka

tiaka — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 07:39:27 -0800

I'm sure this was posted before, I recall it from about a year or so ago, there were a bunch of 007 jokes. Or am I inventing false memmories again?

By: hurkle

hurkle — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 07:57:59 -0800

Been posted numerous times everywhere all over etc. etc. I still think the segway should have been a transporter. Now that's cool.

By: thebigpoop

thebigpoop — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:49:50 -0800

Yo Joe!

By: CrazyUncleJoe

CrazyUncleJoe — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:05:11 -0800

Jet Pack! Jet Pack! Jet Pack!

By: Aleph Yin

Aleph Yin — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:22:08 -0800

Not to mention, just think of the security problems if you have to protect against people approaching a target from the air. You'd have to put things like the White House in some sort of hermetically sealed bubble.

even if it could keep us canuks from burning it down again, i'm all for it if it would would keep everything inside from getting out.

By: nicwolff

nicwolff — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:46:20 -0800

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: if the car were invented today, they'd never let us have them.

By: th3ph17

th3ph17 — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:52:56 -0800

so, what if the segway gyroscopes are combined with something like that? fly where you lean? That would be interesting.

By: Tubes

Tubes — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:33:44 -0800

fly where you lean Isn't that how the jetpacks and flying platforms the military have experimented with maneuver? No gyros are required, you just shift your weight so the thrust axis changes.

By: animoller

animoller — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:29:52 -0800

It should have been the Moller flying car. I'm name-biased, of course, but really, flying cars should be what Y2K+ are all about.

By: th3ph17

th3ph17 — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:58:38 -0800

well... No. no flying cars until there is a real autopliot just like in all the sci-fi movies. Imagine the average idiot in traffic. Imagine that idiot Flying. Gives me chills. Of course...i want one, and would be perfectly safe.

By: SpecialK

SpecialK — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:01:47 -0800

If they don't have auto pilot, I want heat-seeking missles. That would definately make my commute enjoyable.

By: ejoey

ejoey — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:04:18 -0800

i'll stick with the megway

By: CrazyUncleJoe

CrazyUncleJoe — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:20:45 -0800

ejoey: that's only with the vinyl options. Get cloth - no stickage.

By: Slithy_Tove

Slithy_Tove — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:21:44 -0800

I'm waiting for the first case of Segway Rage. Or Megway Rage. Running Megways into each other.... would that be like all-girl wrestling? Wait, there was a point to this post...what was it...? Oh, yeah: But will they build cities around it?

By: lucien

lucien — Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:08:31 -0800

"It's still in prototype but it works." This has been "in prototype" for some years now. I posted a note on it on another message board two years ago thinking how gee whiz it was then. I agree it is cool, and it does "work", but not yet on any practical level. Whereas the Segeway, whilst it did not (could not?) live up to the hype it generated, was pretty much ready to roll (uh, literally!) as soon as it was released.