Design lessons from the grim fate of the Segway
The Segway failed because it solved no actual problems. Electric scooters and e-bikes are thriving because they do.
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7 min readAug 13, 2021
Why did the Segway never take off?
Over at Slate, Dan Kois ponders this question in a rollicking essay about the benighted two-wheel device. Kois had a remarkable…