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RECALL WARNING: Segway is recalling over 200,000 electric scooters that can collapse mid-ride (www.theverge.com)

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Consumers can contact Segway for a free maintenance kit.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought it was the CEO but yeah, wild stuff: Accidentally rode off a cliff if I recall correctly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

From my understanding, dude rode the thing off a pier and drowned.. ☹️

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Now I'm wondering if both things happened and they were two separate people from Segway...

Here's the cliff guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Heselden

He just bought the company though, he wasn't the inventor.

Either way, damn.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, the actual inventor of the Segway:

In 2007, his residence was a hexagonal, shed style mansion he dubbed Westwind,[14] located in Bedford, New Hampshire, just outside Manchester. The house has at least four levels and is very eclectically conceived, with such things as: hallways resembling mine shafts; 1960s novelty furniture; a collection of vintage wheelchairs; spiral staircases; at least one secret passage; an observation tower; a fully equipped machine shop; and a huge cast iron steam engine which once belonged to Henry Ford (built into the multi-story center atrium of the house) which Kamen is working to convert into a Stirling engine-powered kinetic sculpture.[citation needed] Kamen owns and pilots an Embraer Phenom 300 light jet aircraft[46] and three Enstrom helicopters, including a 280FX, a 480, and a 480B.[47][48][49] He regularly commutes to work via his helicopters and had a hangar built into his house.[50] In 2016 he flew as a passenger in a B-2 Spirit bomber at Whiteman AFB, marking the opening of the 2016 FRC World Championship in St. Louis.[51]

https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/stories-of-innovation/visionaries/dean-kamen/#gallery-video=xrd3NzMTrT70W_Xeog0BoBo35sBqnCz_

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Sounds pretty amazing tbh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

apparently he got his fortune by inventing a compact flood control fortification later appropriated for military defense

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

His bartender convinced him to buy Segway. True story.