The PT, or personal transporter, is a one-person electric vehicle with two wheels. What sets it apart is that it’s self-stabilized. The most famous is from the Segway brand, which was the first to manufacture this means of transportation. Without going into the technical details, let’s take a look at how this vehicle operates. A miniaturized system The PT operates via a complex system of gyroscopes and sensors. This system was specially designed to adapt the principle of a conventional gyroscope to use in a small one-person vehicle. Since a conventional gyroscope is too large and too heavy to be…
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Without a doubt, you’ve seen a Segway PT in the street at least once. With its 2 parallel wheels, it’s impossible to miss. 🙂 When you’ve never ridden one, you might be a bit nervous at first… Yet nothing could be easier! In just a few minutes, anyone can learn to move forwards, backwards, and even turn in place. All this without needing to have good balance. The Segway PT keeps its balance for you The secret? The PT is entirely self-stabilized. In a sense, the PT calculates your balance for you. Its gyroscopes are even faster and better performing…
Many people still don’t know the truth about the fatal Segway accident that took place on September 26, 2010, in the county of Yorkshire in England. Just yesterday, a client in one of the agencies of Mobilboard, the network for Segway PT rental, repeated the same thing. Of course, the media hasn’t always been very accurate when reporting on the subject. Here’s the true story about the accident. First of all, NO, the inventor of the Segway PT, Dean Kamen, is not dead! The accident involved Jimi Heselden, the former owner of parent company Segway Inc. He had bought the…