This is not swarming. It is using drones flying pre-programmed paths to survey and area and search for a fire. There is no intelligence in the drones and no drone to drone communication.
The real story here is: hey, you can still make an ass-ton of money without leaving your employees as slaves if you wholly own a small company!!
Say a CEO of a company company with 25000 employees cits his salary from $4m to $100k. That would mean each employee would get an extra $156 per year. While $156 is nice it will not make much difference. The other thing is that, as the owner, he is still bringing in over $1M/year from profits.
Generally in day-to day life I agree But there are some instances where Segways can be useful. The line between lazy and efficient is an opinion and opinions differ.
By the way, labeling something derogatory is merely admitting that one can not make a valid argument.
I am talking about moving about a city where the objective is to spend time at each location looking around. The time spent walking between location just decreases the time at each location. The other point is that I am not just talking about one morning but morning and afternoon for several days in a row. I am talking about a vacation not a marathon.
I am not talking about a 10km morning walk. I am taking about doing 10k in a morning as part of a multi-day vacation where walking is only an impediment to seeing what one wants to see.
That is your definition of what "designed for security" means. There is no authority to confirm or deny the correctness. There could be other "definitions". See how useless the phrase is? It is just market speak.
I'm saying that walking a couple of miles isn't that big of a deal for most people.
Twelve is not a couple.
You started amending your case to add more distance and multiple days,
How many vacations consist of one morning of site seeing? Many vacations are also taken in the summer. I am looking at the general case no just the specific case of a single morning on a nice cool day.
Thing about Rome is that it's a big city with plenty of cabs, buses, scooter rentals, and even car rentals.
Much of this comes from a vist a friend had to Rome. After about 3 days her feet were almost hamburger.
It probably has even more ways of making that 6 mile walk easier. I don't have to choose only between a Segway and walking. I have many choices.
Agreed, and a Segway is one of those choices.
This is not about having to do anything. All I am saying is a Segway is a viable choice for many people. One does not have to be obese or out of shape to make using one viable. We are not as far apart as it might seem.
You seem to be arguing that there is no use for a Segway when vacationing unless one is obese or out of shape. I am arguing that it would be useful for some people who are not obese or out of shape. See the difference?
Good for you. Not everyone is like you. Sometimes vacation timing is constrained by jobs and/or deals. Using a Segway is an alternative to you plan. Just because using a Segway is different from what you might do does not make it wrong.
The phrase "designed for" is irrelevant. It does not matter what something is "designed for". The important part is the implementation. "Designed for security" is not the same as "secure".
Yet another person who does not know the difference between "I have a different opinion" and "troll". Here is a hint; "trolls" use profanity. As an ex-military friend of mine says, "Pot pot this is kettle, kettle. Colour check, over."
If morning is 4 hours then that leave only two hour to actually look at the locations. So you spend 1/2 of your time getting between the things you want to see and only 1/2 of the time actually looking at them. What do you do in the afternoon? Can you cover 12 miles a day for several days in a row? If I am spending thousands of dollars on a vacation I want to see as much as possible and a Segway will help that.
I am sure you can't do that through the streets of Rome in 90 degree summer weather. That is also jogging most of the way which is not conducive to actually looking at things at your destinations. If you did that in the morning could you do the same in the afternoon? Could you do the same thing days in a row? The Segway would allow one to see many more things without becoming exhausted.
They are faster than walking and take less physical energy to do it. If what I want to see is a mile away a Segway would be much faster than waiting for a bus and then stopping at every stop in that mile.
they just free you from having to walk.
That is an advantage as one does not tire as fast as when walking. Try to cover 10km in a morning walking. That is easily done on e Segway.
Any technology can be used incorrectly. That is no reason that the technology should be banned. That is like saying forums should be banned because trolls exist.
If you only have a short time to see a number of different places spread out over a city a Segway may be a good idea. It can also be done on bikes but a Segway is another option.
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can you reference where in the site it states that the project would use true swarming technology and not what I just described?
This is not swarming. It is using drones flying pre-programmed paths to survey and area and search for a fire. There is no intelligence in the drones and no drone to drone communication.
The real story here is: hey, you can still make an ass-ton of money without leaving your employees as slaves if you wholly own a small company!!
Say a CEO of a company company with 25000 employees cits his salary from $4m to $100k. That would mean each employee would get an extra $156 per year. While $156 is nice it will not make much difference. The other thing is that, as the owner, he is still bringing in over $1M/year from profits.
Segways are the mobility scooter for lazy people.
Generally in day-to day life I agree But there are some instances where Segways can be useful. The line between lazy and efficient is an opinion and opinions differ.
By the way, labeling something derogatory is merely admitting that one can not make a valid argument.
I am talking about moving about a city where the objective is to spend time at each location looking around. The time spent walking between location just decreases the time at each location. The other point is that I am not just talking about one morning but morning and afternoon for several days in a row. I am talking about a vacation not a marathon.
How about Rome.
In your not so humble opinion. Opinions differ.
No dork-tron required.
I never said required but a "dork-tron" is an option.
You take a Segway on vacation with you?
One can also rent them in some cities.
I am not talking about a 10km morning walk. I am taking about doing 10k in a morning as part of a multi-day vacation where walking is only an impediment to seeing what one wants to see.
18,688 Nvidia Tesla K20X GPUs
How many of those have been built?
Theory is great but it does take effort to make it reality.
That is your definition of what "designed for security" means. There is no authority to confirm or deny the correctness. There could be other "definitions". See how useless the phrase is? It is just market speak.
Agreed
I'm saying that walking a couple of miles isn't that big of a deal for most people.
Twelve is not a couple.
You started amending your case to add more distance and multiple days,
How many vacations consist of one morning of site seeing? Many vacations are also taken in the summer. I am looking at the general case no just the specific case of a single morning on a nice cool day.
Thing about Rome is that it's a big city with plenty of cabs, buses, scooter rentals, and even car rentals.
Much of this comes from a vist a friend had to Rome. After about 3 days her feet were almost hamburger.
It probably has even more ways of making that 6 mile walk easier. I don't have to choose only between a Segway and walking. I have many choices.
Agreed, and a Segway is one of those choices.
This is not about having to do anything. All I am saying is a Segway is a viable choice for many people. One does not have to be obese or out of shape to make using one viable. We are not as far apart as it might seem.
Did you really want me to find this? lol
You seem to be arguing that there is no use for a Segway when vacationing unless one is obese or out of shape. I am arguing that it would be useful for some people who are not obese or out of shape. See the difference?
Good for you. Not everyone is like you. Sometimes vacation timing is constrained by jobs and/or deals. Using a Segway is an alternative to you plan. Just because using a Segway is different from what you might do does not make it wrong.
The phrase "designed for" is irrelevant. It does not matter what something is "designed for". The important part is the implementation. "Designed for security" is not the same as "secure".
Yet another person who does not know the difference between "I have a different opinion" and "troll". Here is a hint; "trolls" use profanity. As an ex-military friend of mine says, "Pot pot this is kettle, kettle. Colour check, over."
If morning is 4 hours then that leave only two hour to actually look at the locations. So you spend 1/2 of your time getting between the things you want to see and only 1/2 of the time actually looking at them. What do you do in the afternoon? Can you cover 12 miles a day for several days in a row? If I am spending thousands of dollars on a vacation I want to see as much as possible and a Segway will help that.
I am sure you can't do that through the streets of Rome in 90 degree summer weather. That is also jogging most of the way which is not conducive to actually looking at things at your destinations. If you did that in the morning could you do the same in the afternoon? Could you do the same thing days in a row? The Segway would allow one to see many more things without becoming exhausted.
Segways are not particularly fast,
They are faster than walking and take less physical energy to do it. If what I want to see is a mile away a Segway would be much faster than waiting for a bus and then stopping at every stop in that mile.
they just free you from having to walk.
That is an advantage as one does not tire as fast as when walking. Try to cover 10km in a morning walking. That is easily done on e Segway.
Since you can not seem to be able to have a civil conversation I will leave it here.
Any technology can be used incorrectly. That is no reason that the technology should be banned. That is like saying forums should be banned because trolls exist.
If you only have a short time to see a number of different places spread out over a city a Segway may be a good idea. It can also be done on bikes but a Segway is another option.