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Old 04-12-2014, 12:43 PM   #9
Lily Kerns
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Originally Posted by Graham Bryce View Post
Regarding stoke survivors: to safely use a seated Segway, one needs fairly good mobility in order to be able to get on/off the chair. One does need to be able to dismount within 10 seconds should a 'safety shutdown' occur. For now, I've agreed that I'll only be riding my GlidR with supervision. So far I have managed to navigate a fairly steep (With some side-slope. ) path in a local mountainside park. I have never been able to get up this path unassisted in my conventional powerchair.


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This is something I have not researched, but surely one feature that would be useful for more severely disabled folk would be some kind of a "retractable landing gear" that would stabilize the Seg for getting on and off. Do any of the later seg stand type of thing provide for this?
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