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Friday, January 10, 2003

Segways, the "SUVs of the sidewalks"?

A Wall Street Journal snippet (subscription required) on Segway's continuing "issues", from a new CEO to a leaving President (former Subaru USA exec), and now resistance in San Francisco:

John Doerr, Silicon Valley's premier venture capitalist, has been keeping a pretty low profile ever since the tech bust. But Mr. Doerr may be zooming back into the limelight, thanks to the Segway scooter that his venture firm, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, has backed to the tune of millions.

...Mr. Doerr notes that 32 state legislatures have agreed to allow the scooters on city streets, and he calls the scooter a "revolution in clean technology." But San Francisco city supervisors disagree: One calls the scooters the "SUVs of the sidewalks."

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