In a message dated 12/28/2002 9:29:08 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> You guys sound like a tryst of old men sitting around a pickle barrel > thinking of ways to injure skateboarders. I said it before. I don't like pickles. Skateboarding is not a crime. Where you skateboard can be. Uven that XXX dude would agree with that. > Do you know anyone that > commutes on mass transit that has to wait 10-15 minutes for a bus to > take them the last mile or two? Try 30 minutes in Tucson. All busses have front bike racks. Not all take wheelchairs; there's a special bus service one can use. Neither bus has a place for a segway right now. > Do you know any older people that have > trouble getting around and are thus limited as to where they can go? Yup. And it is called getting a cab. Because if you are talking too old to drive, the same skills are going to be needed for the segway. > Do > you know anyone that lives less than five miles from work and drives a > behemoth vehicle that can seat eight and gets 15 mpg or less? Yup. And every weekend he drives 20 to 200 miles for an SCA camping event. > Or are > you just afraid of new tech? Then what am I doing on the internet? > > Doug > > Sheesh The segway will find its own nitch. It will not be a panacea replacement to be worshiped by the technophiles. I refuse to follow the bouncing Ba-al and sacrifice the current primary means of transport just yet. But of course by playing up the cat pee propaganda, we expect to be getting three sheeshes to the winded. :-) William Taylor ---------------------- And thus goes the segway of all flesh, fowl and good red herring. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
