1: The Segway has a max speed of 12 MPH. Couldn't he have just STEPPED OFF the damned thing before reaching the edge of the cliff? I mean I WALK faster than a Segway. I've stepped off skateboards that were moving faster than one. Sure he was an old guy, but even if he fell on his ass, the most he could have gotten was a dislocated hip. He could have stepped off!
2: Granted he was 62 years old and his reaction time may have been slow, but the Segway is responsive to your body movements. It should have stopped when he, supposedly, instinctively pulled back from the edge. Even given bad eyesight due to his years, he should have seen that there was no road ahead of him.
3: Someone mentioned that maybe it was a suicide. Perhaps. But given the speed of the Segway, you'd think he'd have 2nd, 3rd and maybe up to 10th thoughts about going through with it. With a car you don't have much time to change your mind. You hit high speed, run off the cliff and that's it. Not so with a Segway. You can see your entire life pass by and press Pause on the interesting parts and even replay them before you even reached the edge.
It's like I said, this accident(?) borders on the absurd. It shouldn't have happened for a whole mess of reasons besides the ones I mentioned above.
The report says that Heselden loved the Segway so much, he bought the company. Victor Kiam did the same thing when he bought Remington, but I doubt we'll ever see him involved in a runaway shaving accident. (EGADS! Could you imagine the press on THAT?!)
Nope! Sorry. This death is just too weird for reality.
2 comments:
Robert saw this on TV the other night and I also find this weird. First of all I don't see why nayone would go up cliffs with a segway...completely crazy. Segways are the craze in Chicago...everyone is on them and in the building we live in there is an office with training and everything before going out on one of them..looks like fun to me. We have not tried it this year but hopefully will next
re: "Nope! Sorry. This death is just too weird for reality. "
good post sir. I believe it was suicide. I know the police report now says it was an accident, a freak accident, he was allegedly reportedly backing up to make way for a person walking on the same path, but i believe his family, a rich family, is saying this to. 1 protect the family name and image and 2. get more insurance money for accidental death...... $$$ is the key here. any smart gumshoe looking at that cliff he fell will see that it was not possible for fall off by accident, that was deliberate plunge, IMHO. watch the news, it will come out a year from now.....SIGH....but yes, sad story, and condolences to his family first.
danny in taiwan, watching from afar and reading between the lines of the news.......sigh
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