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I drove Segway's bizarre egg-shaped scooter, and it was extremely difficult to use

Mark Matousek   

I drove Segway's bizarre egg-shaped scooter, and it was extremely difficult to use
segway s-pod chair ces 2020
  • Segway-Ninebot, the company behind a slew of motorized personal vehicles, recently debuted its newest product - a personal egg-shaped "transporting pod" called the S-Pod.
  • The company showed off the S-Pod this week at the consumer tech show CES 2020, where I was able to try it out, even though it's not on sale yet to the public.
  • I found it incredibly difficult to control my speed and steering while test driving the S-Pod, and I was nervous during my run that I would cause a collision.
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Segway's personal "transporting pod" was shown off this week at CES 2020 for the first time since the company debuted the egg-shaped scooter as its newest product.

The S-Pod is essentially an electric wheelchair. It can hit speeds of up to 24 mph, and comes with a navigation pad to manually point the vehicle in the direction you want to go.

Although the vehicle is not available to the public, the S-Pod was unveiled this week at CES 2020, the year's biggest consumer tech show taking place in Las Vegas. I was able to test drive the S-Pod around a small track, where I was got a sense of how the vehicle's steering and acceleration works.

Here's my experience testing at the Segway-Ninebot S-Pod, which is not yet up for sale to consumers:

Paige Leskin contributed to this story.



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