Welcome to the offical Segway Blog: The Last Mile
We are pleased to welcome you to The Last Mile, our official Segway blog. Now you can stay up to date on the latest info posted by the Segway team. We’ll not only talk about our innovative products like the Segway PT, but we’ll also share our thoughts about the industry, the community, and everything Segway. We’d love to hear from you too, so please post comments on posts that are of interest if you have a new perspective to share.
You can expect to see posts from a variety of people on our team. Sometimes they’ll be informal and brief; others will be more structured. We hope you’ll find all of them valuable and a bit entertaining every now and then.
Why “The Last Mile?” Great question.
Segway was founded on the premise of providing an innovative solution to short-distance travel. The Last Mile is then, quite literally, the gap that we’re trying to fill in the transportation mix. It keeps us focused (it’s easy to think of all sorts of crazy applications for balancing technology) and we thought it’d be a nice name for the blog.
So sit back, enjoy, subscribe to the feed, and visit often to learn about what we’re up to.
- Segway team
June 22nd, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Thank you for this blog! It’s great to have a more direct line to Segway, Inc.
I’ve been a frequent glider for over three years, putting many happy miles on my i167. And now I’ve been the happy owner of a white i2 with hard cases for about a month.
Though I never had any real problems with the i167’s steering, I really love Leansteer and how it “completes the equation” of the elegance and intuitiveness of gliding on a Segway.
Now it’s pretty much a matter of basically pivoting on your feet and leaning the way you want to go. I love how the ride is so much smoother because the base is freed up from the steering handle which isn’t thrashing back and forth any more.
I can take more of my attention off of the machine and out and around to the environment where it belongs. This makes for much more enjoyable glides.
Very well done to everyone responsible for these significant improvements!
June 23rd, 2007 at 12:39 am
This sounds like it will be good.
I miss the old days of “live chat” on segwaychat.com. Looking forward to some good interaction and dialog on this forum.
June 23rd, 2007 at 4:11 am
I think a blog is a great idea and I love the name. I look forward to reading all about the latest news, products, ideas etc., and giving us the chance to comment, with some certainty that you’ll at least read them, is a bold and positive step forward.
In particular I’d love to hear about how plans for the i2 kickstand are coming along and any news on the Centaur. It all seems to have gone very quiet on that front.
Have there been any other such experiments with the technology? The good the bad and the ugly? I’m sure lots of people would be interested in hearing about them. The RMPs have come a long way, for example. Some video footage would be great.
Best of luck.
June 24th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Great Idea guys ! -
Here’s something I’d Lket to share with you all..
Yesterday we launched the new Peugeot 308 for an 6000 people audience..
And the car was not the only star on stage…
15 segway I2 were the eye catchers of a unique setup !
Have a look here !
http://eventmasters.fotki.com/01_-_action/00_-_segway/segways-in-world-pr/
Video is coming soon !
June 27th, 2007 at 1:17 am
I wanted to let you know that your product brought a lot of joy to my 11year old son. He has Lymphomoa, and while not being able to go to go to school last year he wantched a lot of discovery television. At some point he saw a program about the segway. He was so interested that he looked up everything he could find about them and how they worked. Your dealer in Houston let him ride the off road one a few weeks ago. He was over joyed!! He has told everyone that will listen about it. I was amazed at how easy it was to ride. With just a short instruction session he was off and all over the place. I had to DRAG him off of it. You really have an amazing product. It was great to watch him have so much fun with it!!!
July 10th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Hello all.
Segway is my all. I love it so much, I even started working for the Segway dealers in South Africa!!