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Crossing America on a Segway
Harald Paulsen writes "What do you do if you are tired of working in a cubicle and want to escape the Office Space? Two guys asked themselves this and decided to go across America on a Segway, making a documentary of their road trip. A trailer is available and the movie might show up at Sundance."
People have been doing this on bicycles for years.
If you're crossing America on a Segway, you'd definitely need a trailer...
Combine this trip with the idea of the million-dollar homepage selling pixels, and you would get a inkjet-printer equipped Segway printing commercials of the sponsors on the asphalt all the way from Seattle to Boston.
.....they also appear to have hosted their website on a Segway.
as for making a movie about their experiences - well, it probably won't be Easy Rider.
Wait... TWO guys on a Segway?
Well, that'll get this documentary an NC-17 rating if anything will.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
How do people get to their houses if they don't live on an interstate off-ramp? You know, it's amazing, but there are a lot of people who don't even live in a town that has multiple controlled-access interstate highways passing through. And they're not even farmers! I hear that some people still travel down old Route 66 on occasion...
...like two guys on a Segway. Even if they stopped for a night of recharging on Brokeback Mountain :)
Yeah, he's such a PR genius that now everyone has a Segway. The old folks next door. The kids on the way to little league. There's so many out there you can't look out the window without someone riding by on a Segway.
What did they do for the long stretches without a place to recharge?
What do you think the trailer was available for?
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Wait, I can't figure out if as a Slasdhot reader I'm supposed to support this endeavor or fanatically oppose it!!!! Can anybody tell me if Segways are Open Source or not? That will clear things up.
My generation's defining film - two guys do a big cocaine deal, drop out of society, take drugs and have sex with beautiful women while crossing America on outrageous Harley choppers (Easy Rider)....your generation, two dorks on Segways...
There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.
Before I would consider buying a Segway, I would wanted it modded in some ways. First, I would need a seat. Wait, maybe 2 - no, four - seats so that I can bring some friends along. Of course, that would affect the stability, so I would probably have to add another set of wheels. And with all that extra weight, I doubt the electric motor could provide the necessary juice, so some sort of gasoline engine might be appropriate. Then to keep the weather out, maybe some metal sheilding on the top and sides, with glass windows to see out of. Oh, and of course a radio.
Dark Reflection
Are they cutting straight across, or being selective about where they go? Somehow I can't imagine them getting very far crossing certain city centers...
Segway Trail
Narrator: Your Segway has lost a wheel. Resupply/Keep going?
keep going
Narrator: Sam has been bitten by a poisonous snake. Medicate/Keep going?
keep going
Narrator: Your Segway has run out of batteries. Recharge/Hunt?
hunt
Narrator: You are out of ammunition. You have killed everything in the vicinity. You now have 13,058lbs of meat. You are overburdened.
Narrator: Sam has died.
Narrator: The Segway is irrepairable.
You have died of stupidity. Play again?
We laughed, we cried...Segway Trail. Watch it.