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Megway - New Competition For The Segway

Posted by timothy on from the oh-lighten-up-mr-serious dept.

mikep.maine writes "The personal mobility market is heating up. Witness this practical device featured by Megway. I already have one, but it isn't cheap." Check Yahoo! personals for availability.

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  1. First post? by Athas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So what's the point? To make people look even more stupid that they do on a segway?

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    1. Re:First post? by JPriest · · Score: 2, Insightful
      This is down but Megway is a person, probably named Meagan giving a piggy back ride to some dude in a parody of Segway human transporter.

      Anyway, with the $4,500 price point for Segway and the fact that it only goes as fast as a decent bicycle, I am surprised there is not more of a market for motor assist bicycles.

      A bicycle adds the ability to coast with larger wheels, and removes the need to the machine use power balancing for you. People have a natural ability to balance, taxing the machine with doing this strikes me as inefficient.

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    2. Re:First post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      >and I look forward to pissing off the SUV commuters wanting to pass on a two lane xero shoulder road.

      OK, so you are looking forward to the event where it's a couple hundred pounds of rider+bike VS 2000+lbs SUV?

      Darwinism in action!! :-)

    3. Re:First post? by AmericanInKiev · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Let's not pretend. Biking in the midst of the SUV arms race is definately a form of Darwinianism.

      Which is why I 1. do not ride on the side of the road. (If you do you will experience a great number of near misses)

      If the road doesn't have a clear safe shoulder - I ride on the left-hand side of middle

      This forces the SUV to go all the way in the other lane to pass.

      If you don't force the full - lane pass - they wil attempt the partial lane pass - this is where they squeeze through even if there is oncoming traffic.

      Generally - you WANT somebody stuck behind you - then you know nobody is going to hit you going 70.

      So they get pissed - So what. Its their lungs If saving too. - If they really cared they would vote for bike lanes - and if they don't care - i don't either.

      So you have to go out there with the attitude that says you own the whole damn road (unless there is a good shoulder).

      AIK

  2. and there it is by boarder · · Score: 4, Insightful

    OK, so now that the site has finally loaded, I can see that this is a [not very funny] joke site. Seriously, I see that Timothy put on the headline that it is from the lighten-up joke dept, but if you are going to post a fake site on a supposed news site, at least make sure you bandwidth test it before posting. You could've had 200 of your closest friends load the site and see how fast it loads... scale that up by 3 orders of magnitude and you can determine that a joke that takes 20 minutes to load isn't all that funny.

    Also, as a long-time reader of /., I'd prefer to keep the joke stories confined to Apr 1st.

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    1. Re:and there it is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Err, yeah, who here has 200 close friends?

      I think he's referring to computers, not people.

  3. READ THE THING by neoshroom · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Some of your replies:

    So what's the point? To make people look even more stupid that they do on a segway?

    to the tremendous hype that was built around it. There was one good fallout from all the hype though. People started to think of alternatives. That I believe is the true value of the Segway and now the "MegWay"

    If Lindows lost to MS, then Megway is certainly going to be sued by (and lose to) the Segway guys.

    It's very similar to the Segway, certainly in the same market, and it's name only differs by one letter. Surely Segway's lawyers won't be happy.

    Did anyone even read the article? Newsflash (with annoying scolling subtitle): Its a spoof.

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  4. another tired dupe by lophophore · · Score: 4, Insightful

    News? Hardly. Google shows this foolishness was on the web in December 2001. It wasn't very funny then, and it is even less funny today.

    Can we have a subject category for irrelevant, boring dupes?

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  5. What the... by Viceice · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought SlashDot was supposed to turn useless ONLY on April 1st?

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  6. You need to be succesful to have competition... by Shivetya · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let alone worry about it.

    Seems their goal (Segway) of having the taxpayers buy up their production via Government purchases didn't materialize. They knew they had no real commercial viability, hence all the attempts to get large government organizations to test it out in hopes of getting a buyer.

    My favorite were the lard ass Atlanta cops that tried it, trouble was they were too clutzy to operate it.

    Segway, a product that looked neat but had no market yet was hyped to all heck and back. Just another feature of the dot-com craze.

    As for Megway/Smegway... its a joke... rta

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  7. Re:Hey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't laugh, I work with the guy. His wife agreed to let him get the Segway he wanted in exchange for his letting her get the boobjob she wanted.

    Just my opinion, but I think wifey got pwned.

    (And yes, I said "wife". Don't you feel like a loser now? (That's looser for those of you who learned to write by spellcheck.))