Fun, Smart Human Transporter

Segway

Segway is a personal two-wheeled transporter that helps you to carry anywhere you like. With its self-balancing, computer-controlled, electrically-powered gyroscopic light-mode features, it’s even suitable for the people who have problems standing on two wheels i.e. it doesn’t need any special skills to be used.

How it works?

The ability to balance on its own is the key to its operation. Human brain has an automatic balance mechanism, which acts in case the body comes to an out of balance position because of the shift of the fluid in the inner ear. If you keep leaning forward, your brain will keep putting your legs forward to keep you upright. Instead of falling, you walk forward, one step at a time. The Segway works pretty much with a similar method by using wheels instead of legs, a motor instead of muscles, a collection of microprocessors instead of a brain and a set of sophisticated tilt sensors instead of an inner-ear balancing system.
Like your brain, the Segway knows when you are leaning forward. To maintain balance, it turns the wheels at just the right speed, so you move forward. Segway calls this behavior dynamic stabilization [1].

Benefits

1. Increased productivity

With the help of Segway, workers can travel the short distances with less wasted time (such as at the Airports) and also workers can carry more than their capacity.

2. Time saving

Just only with one charge, police or security petrol can cover eight to ten miles of their territory in less than half of the time that it takes to patrol on foot.

3. Easy to use

The Sageway does not need any special skills.

4. Cost-effective

Having a vehicle is far more expensive than to own the Segway since Segway doesn’t have any fuel, insurance, maintenance and parking costs that might sum up to thousand of dollars.

5. Easy to maintain

The Segway has been extensively tested to withstand vibration, varying temperatures, and exposure to moisture. It requires minimal maintenance such as to check the tire pressure and keep its battery charged.

Future Potential

The world of human transportation is undergoing a revolution as scientists, engineers, and designers address urgent concerns over the contributions of automobile emissions to global climate change and atmospheric pollution. New vehicles using electric, electric-hybrid, and hydrogen power are being rapidly tested, developed, and introduced to the market place. These changes have the potential to revolutionize our urban communities and fundamentally change the way we work and live in our cities. [1].
As it can be concluded from the facts above, Segway has a big potential to be widely used in the future. Also referring to the benefits mentioned above, its leadership in this future market would be unavoidable.

References

[1]www.segway.com