Centaur - a Four-wheeled Segway

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Centaur - a Four-wheeled Segway

Posted by michael on Tuesday October 12, 2004 @08:12AM from the you-can't-afford-it dept.

Mr. Protocol writes "Segway, the folks who brought you the two-wheeled wonder called the IT, have a new concept vehicle up on their website. Called Centaur, it's a four-wheeled version of the IT that pulls stable wheelies by acting like a two-wheeled IT. The movie (Windows Media or Quicktime) shows someone having far too much fun riding one."

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Why...? by FortKnox · 2004-10-12 08:13 · Score: 2, Insightful

If someone wants to spend a TON of money on a bike, there ARE expensive bikes out there....

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1. Re:Why...? by Kozar_The_Malignant · 2004-10-12 08:20 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  > If someone wants to spend a TON of money on a bike, there ARE expensive bikes out there....
  Indeed, a new Ducati would be way more fun.
  
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More consumer confidence? by jargoone · 2004-10-12 08:14 · Score: 5, Insightful

Not that everyone has the money to shell out for one of these things, but the fact that it has 4 wheels might make people less nervous about it.

It would also lead to fewer of these incidents: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technolog y/maney/2003-06-17-segway_x.htm
Who cares? by lothar97 · 2004-10-12 08:15 · Score: 2, Insightful

Yawn. It's an electric stripped down four wheel ATV- likely many times the cost of other ATVs. Oh wait, this one can, get this, TURN AROUND ON TWO WHEELS. Turning around on four wheels is for sissies anyways.
I'll ride a four wheeler over this piece of crap Centaur.
Yes, that is me on the four wheeler.

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What's the point? by randall_burns · 2004-10-12 08:23 · Score: 4, Insightful

The wheelchair segway was significant IMHO-I had one relative that could have benefited from it. These other vehicles just aren't living up the hype. Unlike what John Doehr claimed, cities _aren't_ going to be built around these things. Most people need to get more exercise-not more toys.
Re:This is just great... by cft_128 · 2004-10-12 08:53 · Score: 4, Insightful

believe that bicycles are generally too damn cheap
Not the bikes that I like....

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Re:Awesome by Jeff+DeMaagd · 2004-10-12 08:55 · Score: 4, Insightful

Now, if they could just make it bigger, add some room for passengers, maybe some seats and a steering wheel, I could see people use them.

If this were true, a lot more people would be using golf carts.