Bombardier's Embrio: Segway Of Tomorrow?

[Segway City]

Unbelievable looking machine:

http://www.brp.com/en-CA/

Although I'd heard of it before, this is the first I've seen a video.

http://www.brp.com/BRPCorporate/_Sta...CA/embrio.html

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[gotseg]

... god wouldn't that be a blast! I could see something like that being a possible future.

[kagudesu]

I am all for clean, electric transportation, especially gyroscopic. I'd love to buzz around town on the Embrio. I still think the HT (or a 2025 version of the HT) will be cooler. I like that I can use it indoors as well as out. I'd miss that with a one wheeled motocycle.

But, to each his own. The Embrio's aesthtics are pretty cool!

Cheers,

Andrew Crow

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[segwayowner]

I think it's amazing.... but am afraid it wil compete with the segway...

DES: Segway owner....
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[Segway City]

Actually, this was a result of a design challenge; no actual vehicle exists at this point. Every picture you've seen is a vector rendering of that design. The challenge was to create a vehicle for 2025.

But, since Bombardier are the folks who bring you Sea-Doos and the Rotax engine for my kart, I'd expect this thing to be a kick-@ss ride if ever built. I know my kart is...

[Sal]

I disagree, I don't think it will be a Segway competitor.... Bombardier is NOT making an empowered pedestrian, they are making a cool motorcycle. So it self balances (only in the CGI) It doesn't exist yet, how much will it cost, how will it be powered?

where's cargo? What about safety, what if something goes wrong at 70 MPH?

I wish it luck, it certainly is cool. But I think it's in a different arena than segways.

-Sal


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[kagudesu]

mmmm....gyros failing at 70MPH.

Not to say it would, but that's a nasty thought. But, by the year 2000, we'll be using hover cars.


Cheers,

Andrew Crow

You own a Segway, now buy a Macintosh.

[Sal]

Cars??? I think heisenberg Compensators would have been perfected by then, and we'd all be beaming places.

-Sal

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[Florida Ever-Glides]

I strongly believe that Segway is on the cusp of a 'transportation revolution'. The HT probably won't change the world as predicted, but their technology most certainly will.

I envision 30-50+ years from now a vehicle that combines both hydrogen fuel-cell technology and self-balancing technology to produce an efficient and non-polluting transportation. some may be one-person vehicles, others will probably carry the family like todays automobiles.

They will rest on a main-'frame' platform with either one wheel in the middle or two wheels side-by-side much like the Segway.

I hope I live to see what is most certainly going to be the most exciting evolution in transportation, in history.

Tom Jacobson

[cereal]

Sweet ride! Too bad we will have to wait 21 years for it. Maybe they're having problems integrating it with the flux capacitor.

-David