There was so much hype before the Segway came out. It would
change the way we get around; even change the way cities are designed. Steve
Jobs claimed it was “as big a deal as the PC.” When we finally tried one, we
were less than impressed. For a while, you could test-drive Segways in what used
to be Disneyland’s Carousel of Progress. There were Segway tours of Disney’s
Fort Wilderness Resort in Florida. Eventually, Disney decided the “human
transport” vehicles were dangerously unstable, and banned them from the parks. The
US and UK came to the same conclusion. It didn’t stop the owner of the Segway
company, Jimi Heselden, from using one to tool around his West Yorkshire
estate. Jimi, who’d recently acquired the company via takeover, was found dead
with his self-balancing scooter, at the base of a cliff. Moral: anything as
expensive as a Disney trip that ISN’T a Disney trip is probably a bad idea.
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