San Francisco bans Segway

[Phil Of Mac]

Originally posted by MacBandit


If you can't walk through a shopping mall you better have a medical reason.

I agree that it could be useful for around town but for distances you can walk you should. Also a bicycle is definitely cheaper and for me faster.

Some shopping malls are really quite large. But if people start using Segways inside the shopping malls we have now, they can build malls that are three times the size.

If Segways were less expensive (which I have no doubt they will become), they may in fact become the primary transportation system of college students--no parking fees, easily go anywhere in town, no gas, insurance, or pollution.

 

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by Phil Of Mac


Some shopping malls are really quite large. But if people start using Segways inside the shopping malls we have now, they can build malls that are three times the size.

If Segways were less expensive (which I have no doubt they will become), they may in fact become the primary transportation system of college students--no parking fees, easily go anywhere in town, no gas, insurance, or pollution.

No pollution? You think power comes out of the air?

 

[Phil Of Mac]

Where I live, power comes from hydroelectric dams, which produce no pollution at all.

I'm all for switching power production to hydroelectric, solar, wind, nuclear, etc. Until then, we've got the pollution either way. (AFAIK, the immediate pollution from power plants is away from populated areas, unlike the pollution caused by automobiles.)

 

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by Phil Of Mac
Where I live, power comes from hydroelectric dams, which produce no pollution at all.

I'm all for switching power production to hydroelectric, solar, wind, nuclear, etc. Until then, we've got the pollution either way. (AFAIK, the immediate pollution from power plants is away from populated areas, unlike the pollution caused by automobiles.)

Do you live in the NW?

If so then you think your power comes from Hydroelectric. Remember the power shortage in California? Well the Feds forced us to sell nearly all our power to California when that happened and we have to buy our power from out of the area to the east. This is the reason for the increase in power costs in the last few years.