> I'd like to drive it, but I wouldn't buy one if I can't get everywhere I'd
like
> to on it - hell, we don't even have bike lanes where I live.
have taken a trip to Amsterdam or Copenhagen instead and seen how a clever
city puts in bike lanes which are not just a painted squeeze space at the
side of the normal traffic. Then he would have seen that people use these
lanes to get around on 300 buck bikes. They require no energy to travel,
and probably a fraction of the energy to produce. They last for a zillion
years and require no maintenance, short of slapping some butter on the chain
every two years (really, Dutch bikes are tanks which never break).
I agree that an evolution of the current electric chairs for handicapped is
not a bad thing, but is a stand-up scooter steered by weight shifts the
right thing? A lot of people with heart problems have other, related
handicaps, like vision problems, balance deficiencies etc. Just standing up
for a long time is a problem. How does this magic scooter help the
quadrapalegic or parapalegic? At the press show I saw a lot of healthy,
young people zipping around on a nifty toy.
Stephen