See I'd just say it's "less than ideal" but I'm so used to this method that I don't even notice it, and I can't be annoyed at something I don't notice. Maybe I've owned Segway products for so long that I've grown accustomed to dealing with obvious flaws. :) :)

Or maybe your peripheral nervous system functions as it was designed.

While attaching my receiver hitch to my car (a very simple task), I noticed that the second bolt was all sticky. Turned out to be blood. Mine. It required a trip to the ER for a half-dozen stitches on the middle finger. Didn't feel a thing. Cleaned it with 70% isopropanol -- didn't feel a thing. Probably could have gotten the stitches without anesthetic.

Just one of a half dozen injuries currently healing on my hands and arms. I don't know how many on my legs or elsewhere.

Two weeks later, after getting the stitches out, I knocked it open and bleeding again. I felt that momentarily, so that time I knew to look But other than that, it never did hurt, or feel like anything in particular.

Pain is your friend.