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Originally Posted by Bob.Kerns
I'll point out that with a suitable suspension, it's possible to make a 3-wheeled device self-balancing as well. I have no idea if this is what Segway is doing. But you don't have to raise and lower the third wheel to get self-balancing. In fact, that would be somewhat tricky because you'd have to also shift the center of gravity to be somewhere to the rear of the front wheels, right as it got to the ground.
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Yeah, that makes sense. In any case, though, it seems to me that the third wheel would want to be an outrigger in the rear and a "caster" so as not to conflict with the Segway leansteer mechanism.
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Daniel Swanson