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12-02-2002, 03:09 PM
That is approximately 2000 days or 5 years of riding.
quote:How much damage Segways could cause is still a question. The company notes that police, postal workers, and other civil servants in cities including New York, San Francisco, and Atlanta have logged more than 50,000 hours on the vehicles. So far, no pedestrians have been injured.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1202/p02s02-ussc.html
quote:California Assemblywoman Dion Aroner has already done that. As a representative from Berkeley, the home of the disabled-rights movement and the inventor of curb-side cutouts for wheelchairs, she was a Segway skeptic when legislation came up for debate this year. The elderly in her district voiced concerns that Segway, which can reach a top speed of 12 m.p.h., would turn sidewalks into bowling alleys of pedestrian pins.
Ms. Aroner's experience, however, sheds light on how Segway's lobbying effort has achieved such success in statehouses across America.
First, she says, Segway chose a good lobbyist - "one not perceived as being in anyone's pocket." Moreover, the company was open to her comments and willing to compromise on the drafted bill. For example, the California law - like those in several states - allows each locality to draw up its own laws on Segway, going street by street, if necessary.
What sold her, though, was riding it for 20 minutes around the statehouse. "My balance is not great," says Aroner. "But I could do it. I felt secure on it."
This woman seems should know what she is talking about.
quote:In fact, she felt Segway might be of benefit to those most concerned about it: the elderly.
Ironic that the senior citizens groups are protesting so loudly.
I wonder how that compares with the safety statistic of other vehicles?
quote:How much damage Segways could cause is still a question. The company notes that police, postal workers, and other civil servants in cities including New York, San Francisco, and Atlanta have logged more than 50,000 hours on the vehicles. So far, no pedestrians have been injured.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1202/p02s02-ussc.html
quote:California Assemblywoman Dion Aroner has already done that. As a representative from Berkeley, the home of the disabled-rights movement and the inventor of curb-side cutouts for wheelchairs, she was a Segway skeptic when legislation came up for debate this year. The elderly in her district voiced concerns that Segway, which can reach a top speed of 12 m.p.h., would turn sidewalks into bowling alleys of pedestrian pins.
Ms. Aroner's experience, however, sheds light on how Segway's lobbying effort has achieved such success in statehouses across America.
First, she says, Segway chose a good lobbyist - "one not perceived as being in anyone's pocket." Moreover, the company was open to her comments and willing to compromise on the drafted bill. For example, the California law - like those in several states - allows each locality to draw up its own laws on Segway, going street by street, if necessary.
What sold her, though, was riding it for 20 minutes around the statehouse. "My balance is not great," says Aroner. "But I could do it. I felt secure on it."
This woman seems should know what she is talking about.
quote:In fact, she felt Segway might be of benefit to those most concerned about it: the elderly.
Ironic that the senior citizens groups are protesting so loudly.
I wonder how that compares with the safety statistic of other vehicles?