Brave new era

[jethrien]

So rememeber several years back, when the media told us to wait in breathless anticipation for the unveiling of "It", which would change the way we thought about transportation forever?

Remember how it turned out to be the Segway?

Remember the last time you saw someone actually using one for something that had been utterly revolutionized by this brilliant new invention?

No? Yeah, me neither.

However, today I actually saw the first example of an organization obtaining Segways for their employees. (I've heard of it, but this is the first time I saw people in uniforms on Segways.)

It was for a bank. So that their employees could hand out brochures. That's right - five bank employees on Segways that had been decorated with the bank's colors, camping my subway station to hand out brochures.

Wow.

The way I thin about transportation has been changed forever.

Comments

[tigermelp.livejournal.com]

Haha :) I think that's my bank. I've seen those guys around.

But the best uses of the Segway that I've seen were these...at O'Hare Airport, the security officials would ride them around. Made it much faster to get from one end of that monstrosity to the other.

The other is the guy leading walking tours (and I think there are also Segway tours) down here in DC. There's a lot of ground to cover between these monuments...and if everyone gets there a bit faster, it'll be easier to get to more of them on a shorter tour. Not bad. :)

[maydove.livejournal.com]

I've seen campus police officers on Segways. It always looks kind of funny. A lot of robotics labs buy Segway platforms to do experiments, too.

[deltagrl.livejournal.com]

I saw models doing that for Jet Blue two weeks ago! They looked ridiculous!! I laughed so hard. You have to watch the first season of "Arrested Development." A very funny character rides around on one all the time, and the uselessness is exposed completely. :)