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Holy crap! After all these years, I finally saw my first Segway!
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[quote davester][quote AlphaDog]Well, you big city folk apparently have more to worry about. When the whole town has only one Segway, we don't care where the little guy rides it. Smile
My thoughts exactly. Why on earth would a legislative body bother taking the time to ban something that is rarely ever sighted, let alone being only a marginal hazard. Some people really have their priorities screwed up.
Not sure who you're saying has their priorities screwed up. Around here is was good they got banned. Pedestrians were often knocked into busy traffic by unskilled/careless segway riders. People bought them for their children who couldn't pedal bikes very fast, so their kids could keep up with them. Putting a seven-year-old in control of a device doing ~13MPH in a crowd of pedestrians is a very bad idea. Not only do they not have the motor skills to maneuver such a device, but they often can't even read the signs controlling traffic at local parks.

I've personally been forced off the sidewalk by segways multiple times. It typically results from the person going fast and wanting to look back at something. They continue on, full speed, without looking forward. It's also illegal to ride bikes on sidewalks in this area.

I have no doubt someone would have been killed if the segways weren't banned in this area.
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Re: Holy crap! After all these years, I finally saw my first Segway! - by M A V I C - 11-30-2007, 11:40 PM

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