Re: "Unholy love-child of bicycle and monorail"

cryptoguy <treifamily@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
cryptoguy <treifamily@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
No, more people need to commute than can engage in exercise.

Biking at a 12 miles per hour -- the Segway's maximum speed --
barely counts as exercise. I'd be willing to bet there are far
more people who don't need to commute than there are who are too
weak or lame to ride a bike at 12 mph.

Which is relevant how? The existence of mobility impaired non-
commuters says nothing about what mobility impaired commuters
would do.

I was responding to your claim that "more people need to commute than
can engage in exercise."

The device the OP describes is much less useful than a bicycle,
since it requires expensive tracks, and there seems no way to change
track or pass slow or stopped pods.

That's so obvious that I'm assuming there's a way to change track. If
not to get around slower riders, then certainly to head to different
destinations.
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