Billed as "bigger than the Internet," I fully expected the Segway to be some sort of truly astounding technology. I mean, seriously, what was really going to rival the Internet for the way a technology has changed our lives? Then the Segway was released and I was thoroughly underwhelmed. So it's the self-propelled replacement for the bicycle--yippee. Do we really want a form of transportation in between walking and an automobile that discourages walking? With the already sad health state of our population, don't we want to encourage walking? I, for one, don't want "walking distance" to be redefined as a maximum of my front door to my mailbox.



Anyway, this is a long way of saying that the Segway is apparently progressing along just fine, even though I thought it had been such a disappointment that it had disappeared from the public radar. The Delaware Law Office picked up a Christian Science Monitor article on the Segway scooter. The Monitor reports:

Upon its introduction to an expectant world a year ago this week, the Segway Human Transporter was hailed as a modern marvel - a contraption of ingenious gyroscopes and improbable balance that could recast urban transit. Twelve months later, however, the invention's most impressive accomplishment has nothing to do with technology or transportation.



In a trend one observer calls "unprecedented," 32 states have passed laws to make Segway legal on streets and sidewalks. Indeed, they have done nothing less than roll out a red carpet for the scooter, telescoping a process that often takes numerous bills and several years.

The point of the article, however, is that San Francisco is considering banning the Segway. Their reasons are not the same as mine would be--they think it would be a danger to pedestrians.



I will concede that Segway has a pretty cool website. They have a page that will calculate how much time you save using the Segway over walking. That said, here's an idea: Maybe they should have a page that shows you how many calories you keep on and how much muscle tone you don't build by using the Segway over walking.

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