As others have noted - the 'sidewalk resentment' angle is ~ same as early days of the motor-car vs horses: you had to have a guy waving a flag. People will get over that, unless users behave as assholish as they do in cars. Ok.. they Won't get over that :(

It's gotta be a lot more Fun than a computer game (ducks under console). Particularly liked his comment on getting off - a new way that isn't at all like 'walking'.

Imagine rentals at airports! Those Hitler/Speer-designed enclosed, interminable 'walk' ways: with all that crap slung over your shoulder. Put magic marker tags which sound alarms if you try to take one out of its area. Charge $, \ufffd appropriate to the utility and the Fun - gets public notice and converts. (He should subsidize these)

See? Any idiot can be a 'marketer'.




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That daily exercise is prolly extending your dice-throw chances of living long enough to be a curmudgeon (vs. your cohorts' atrophied butts.. in those leather Beemer seats). :=\ufffd

But I know whatcha mean.. This appears to be a masterpiece of ergonomic cleverness; undoubtedly these solutions to "artificial human-style balance" will only produce spin-offs everywhere. And remember: yuppies everywhere - spend more than this for a >> Look-at-Me << wristwatch or Aitch Dee Tee Vee to watch other people.. do sports while they ingest triple-bacon cheeseburgers.

I predict: motorcycles for wimps! prolly no heavier than a genu-wine US-made Hog (Harley) with a moveable mass near the CG. This akin to the technique as is used in tall builings now, to damp out wind oscillations. While not Complete-idiot proof, it could force proper weight shift in turns, so as to maintain equilibrium of the opposing but vertically skewed centri -petal -fugal force vectors.

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If this guy's Ego isn't as big as a Billy, he'll subsidize the first thousand or so, get the cost down to $1-1.5K and join the Chateau Lafitte for lunch set. And he'll do this *now*. For a measly $50K - I'll 'splain to him how. (I'm the one who missed buying Sony stock at \ufffd360 ($1)/share then.. wayback. Perfect credentials: not to be stoopid twice.)


Ashton Marketing for Maladroits Ltd.
You invent it.
We'll tell ya what ya got, dummy.


PS: It's gotta have a pleasant beep-beep horn like the Roadrunner.

Wait for the Yuppie-Kid Model: parent beeper causes machine to head for home. (With/without-YK = upgrade option). Next will come the back-pack battery - for those long treks across the Sierra.. (Special organic batteries too - when depleted, they make a fine soup)


Ashton Wagg-Ed Ltd.