MM, I've spent time riding a couple of versions. They are as easy as falling off a log.
The handlebars seem unnecessary, though things can be hung off them and accoutrements added.
But for sheer getting around with no baggage, just the base would be fine, with a bluetooth-connected turning device.
Step on, lean forwards and zoom away. Turn left by twisting the handgrip, or, on the new, improved, Mqurice version, rotating the hand-held gadget, which would be a control device. Software could be built into a cyberphone to control the Segway, including allowing it to go.
I'm very tempted to get one just for zooming around. Delivering political leaflets would be really quick with one. But I like the exercize walking or riding a bike. It would still be a fair bit of exercize, running up to some letter boxes.
They really are great.
Plenty of people are quite uncoordinated and spatially incompetent, so I imagine they would have trouble using them effectively and not falling off them. But normal people who can stand and walk backwards would have no trouble. Maybe a good test would be for a person to walk backwards up stairs without holding on. If they can do that, they'd find riding a Segway a doddle, I guess.
They can do 20 kph, which is zipping along. No parking problems.
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