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Old 03-26-2017, 03:16 PM   #19
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'Segway' has been sold now a couple of times. What did the current owners actually pay for? Mostly that reputation..
Actually, the old Segway was purchased for its patents. Segway was suing a number of companies for patent violations. U.S. Customs was seizing products imported from other countries for violating the patents. The new owners got the patent rights, and Segway's reputation for reliability came along for the ride.

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I never thought of Segways as safe. Plenty of news stories of those big powerful machines sending people to the hospital.
There have been injuries, to be sure, and almost every one of those was caused by the rider themselves, not the machine. Most ATV injuries are caused in the same way.

Maybe think of the old epitaph, "Hold my beer and watch this!", the next time you are doing jumps on your ATV.
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