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Originally Posted by KSagal
I feel that data is useless. It appears the segway was being pushed on a trolley, so it was not acting like a segway. You could have used a plastic or metal weight and gotten the same reaction.
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I disagree, because I don't think there is such thing as useless data. You could substitute one heavy thing for another but that doesn't mean the result would be the same.
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If the segway were under its own power, when the handlebar hit, it would change the power to the wheels. I don't personally think it would react quickly enough to instantly stop moving forward, but it would clearly change the follow through very much.
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I definitely agree with you on this point however. The segway is fast, but I don't think it is fast enough to do much about the impact, but it would certainly do something different after that. The segway updates the signals to the wheels every hundredth of a second. A segway going 12.5 mph is going ~5.6 centimeters in that period of time. That base is still going to hit with some force.