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The vehicle so confident it killed its own inventor.
means A common misspelling of 'Segway,' the two-wheeled self-balancing electric scooter — often confused with 'segue,' the word for a smooth transition.
from The brand name 'Segway' was coined around 2001 as a deliberate respelling of 'segue' (which English borrowed from Italian segue, 'it follows,' from Latin sequi, 'to follow'). The idea was that the device would 'segue' you smoothly from place to place. People then misspell the misspelling, writing 'segway' when they actually mean the transition word — a mix-up the brand basically engineered. The grim line in the essence nods to the company's owner, who died in 2010 after riding one of his Segways off a cliff, though the legend has grown taller than the truth.
- fatal irony
- Owner died driving one off a cliff
- hype peak
- Predicted to outsell cars, sold dozens monthly
- self-balancing
- Five gyroscopes fight gravity in real time
- mall legacy
- Now mostly patrols parking lots and tourist herds
- discontinued
- Production ended in 2020, dignity ended earlier
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