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The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has href="http://news.google.com/news?q=segway">recalled all 6000 Segway
scooters sold because it has a bad habit of falling over when the
batteries get too low. (Minor engineering detail, oops.)

Comments 6

  1. bubba wrote:

    hahahahahaha :X

    Posted 26 Sep 2003 at 6:53 am
  2. srl wrote:

    I heard bicycles fall over too when their power source runs out of energy.

    Posted 26 Sep 2003 at 6:57 am
  3. anonymous wrote:

    How long will it take to call the 3 people who bought one?

    The issue of course is how long it will take them to drive their Segways back to the shop :)

    Posted 26 Sep 2003 at 6:58 am
  4. genericus wrote:

    There’s also an alcohol content problem with those power sources…

    Posted 26 Sep 2003 at 7:01 am
  5. rumplestimpskin wrote:

    HA ha! (nelson voice)

    Posted 26 Sep 2003 at 7:58 am
  6. deviant_ wrote:

    Man, my bicycle has the same problem.

    Posted 26 Sep 2003 at 9:59 am