Paul Harvey makes Segway rental comment

[mzokc]

(UPDATE: The audio is long gone, but the effect lingers on. When Paul Harvey says it, it takes off with investors. Isn't it interesting that this thread was more concerned about the word "scooter" than the word "rental!" My how times change.)

On Monday, May 19, 2003 Paul Harvey said:

"The Segway Scooter has not been selling too well at five thousand dollars, but they're renting very well in resort areas. Twenty dollars for thirty minutes."

You can listen at http://www.paulharvey.com (dont bother, see update.)

Click on Monday "morning" during the next week.

Mark

[MONTIE]

I'll be waiting for "The rest of the Story"...Montie

[Jeff Allen]

quote:"The Segway Scooter has not been selling too well at five thousand dollars, but they're renting very well in resort areas. Twenty dollars for thirty minutes."

There is no way I would rent a Segway for $20 for 30 minutes. That's way too low ... somebody is losing money or soon will be.

and IT'S NOT A SCOOTER!!!

Onward!
Jeff Allen

[Peter iNova]

Paul is SO well informed!

-iNova

http://www.glidewalk.com

[pt]

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cheers,
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[Neelix]

How can people honestly look at a Segway and call it a scooter? It looks absolutely positively NOTHING like a scooter! Scooters have their wheels in a TOTALLY different position. The Segway looks, to me anyway, like a Segway. There is nothing out there that you could compare it to, save a chariot.

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[Stan671]

Neelix, I know that the Segway does not look or work anything like a scooter. But I find myself describing mine as a "high tech, self balancing, electronic scooter" because people can relate to the word scooter as a device to scooting around town for short trips. I think that lay-people (people not knowledgable about the details of the Segway HT) find the term, scooter, much more friendly and embraceable than "human transporter".

So far, nobody I have told this to has mistaken the Segway high tech, self balancing, electronic scooter, for one of those low tech, dangerous razor scooters. I think it is only us that are getting hung up on the word scooter as describing a particular form of wheeled device rather than scooter refering to a transportion method that gets us around where we want to go that is not a car, bike, skates or skate board.

I certainly agree that there is nothing out there that compares to a Segway HT. And notice that I don't call it a scooter when talking to anyone here. I just use scooter the first time I describe it to a new person to help them grasp what I can use the Segway for and then I tell them about what a wonder the Segway really is.

Stan Dobrowski

[Neelix]

When I describe the Segway, I am certain that I completely leave out the word "scooter" I tell them that it is a two-wheeled, self-balancing, personal mobility device that looks like a lawnmower. Most people have seen them on TV, even if they don't know the name, so I find that that description is able to get the point across.

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[pam]

I always leave out the word scooter because it seems to be something Dean Kamen feels strongly about. If I can't describe it without using the word "scooter" then I suggest that they have a demo ride.
Pam

[Private Pile]

Instead of "scooter," try "Galactic Stallion." If that doesn't work, HT should do.

[GlideMaster]

Dear Paul Harvey, I've been elected to inform you that the Segway is not that "s" word. It is a Human Transporter or to those that have emersed themselves within the Fiefdom of Glide it is affectionately referred to as a Glider. If you must continue to make an attempt to write about the Segway, please use the accepted designation of Segway or Glider. :)[/:)][8D]

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[nocanfly]

Calling a segway a scooter is like calling a ferrari a car. Technically true, perhaps, but you know there's no comparison.

[ElectraGlide]

There's debate over describing the Segway as a " scooter " , and it seems to ruffle a lot of feathers out there. I for one am not as concerned about the term "scooter" , as I am hearing it described as a ( fume spewing , loud, and dirty )....." LAWNMOWER " !

Steve

[Peter iNova]

Scooting is something you do to propel a vehicle. Technically, an electric, stand-on-with-one-foot vehicle wouldn't be a scooter unless you scooted it. As soon as you lift that other foot, scooting is abandoned.
(iNova's New World Dictionary)

-iNova

http://www.glidewalk.com

[nocanfly]

Well in the final analysis whatever society decides to call the Segway is what it will be known as. Who would have thought a horseless carriage would someday be called a 'car' or a 'SUV' for that manner. Even though it's officially known as a human transporter I doubt that name will survive in the end. It's not quite elegant enough. Pehaps the term 'glider' may catch on but it's still confusing because the rest of the world has another perception of what a glider is. I think some people will always refer to the Segway as a scooter only because it's the closest word to accurately describe the Segway.

[pam]

Interesting that the term auto-mobile (mobile by itself) is what is now used and was probably coined by the manufacturer, when horseless carriage was what was originally used by the general population. I'm hoping that over time it will just be come to be called an HT.
Pam

[Sunday]

I have a few friends who ride Harley Davidsons. They always refer to their bikes as scooters when I'm around them. But, as far as the Segway name goes, I'll just call it a Segway...because that's what it is.


Sunday

[GadgetmanKen]

Yeah, that is interesting. To even come up with horseless carriage is odd at that. It evolved into motor vehicle, automobile, Betsy, HUV, Chevy, Olds, Ford, etc. It will be interesting what HT's will be called in the future when there are other brands out there as well. Oh anyone one know how the horseless carriage became a CAR?

"Wouldn't it be cool, if?...is like Folgers in my cup"

[Linc2000]

Has anyone used the term "horseless chariot"? Lincoln [8D]

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[whistler]

Dear Paul Harvey,
In a recent story you refered to Dean Kaman's Segway HT as a "scooter".
It seems that most owners and supporters of the Segway HT do not like this term, because a

scooter has one wheel in front of the other. The Segway HT has it's wheels side by side.
This more closely resembles a spool, such as wire is wound on.
Please use the more correct term: "spoolter" instead of "scooter" and the spoolter rider

should be refered to as a "spoolster".
Thank you.
Best regards,
(name withheld to protect the perpetrator)

I can't wait to see how he responds to this.......... lmao.

[Sunday]

How about the term gyro-ped? Gyroscopically balanced Electric Pedestrian Mobility Device. Or maybe Pedestrian Conveyance Unit, a PCU:)

Sunday