Word: scootering
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Code-named Ginger, the Segway Human Transporter is the world’s first self-balancing scooter and allows a person to travel about 12 miles per hour. The scooter can run up to 15 miles on a single electric charge; to steer a Segway, a rider simply needs to shift their body weight and the machine will sense the change and respond almost instantaneously...
...book about the scooter, to be written by Steve Kemper, will focus on the process of innovation in general and Segway’s development specifically, McConville said, and will be released next year...
Speculation about what Ginger would be ran rampant on many websites and discussion boards. Many thought that Ginger might be a type of hovering scooter or run on a Sterling engine, a highly efficient engine that potentially could run on a fuel such as hydrogen...
Because of gyroscopes and tilt sensors that monitor a rider’s movements 100 times per minute, it is almost impossible to fall off the scooter. Segway is also designed so that when a rider steps off the scooter it immediately stops...
Although Segway is designed to be primarily used on pavement, the scooter can also travel through water and stones...