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Electric Winglet "drive through" shopping mall airports (toyota)
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by SOLARLIFE | August 3, 2008 at 03:42 pm
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Electric Winglet "drive through" shopping mall airports (toyota)
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Go shopping from your home or Appartment directly in the market.
Clean electric motor keeps you running, balancing your body makes
fun. 3 versions available, ranging from 'practical' to 'hands-free sporty'
August 3, 2008
Toyota has shown a prototype of a motorised stand-up-and-ride device designed for scooting around malls and airports.
It said it would start testing the Winglet later in 2008 at a Japanese airport and resort complex and at a shopping mall in 2009 to get feedback from consumers.
Toyota executive Takeshi Uchiyamada, who scooted on to the stage at Friday's media conference in Tokyo on a Winglet, said there were no plans yet to market the machine and no prices had been set.
The Winglet looks very similar to a Segway and uses the same "lean the way you want to go" system of gyros and sensors to control forward and backward movement but has a simple parallel-link mechanism for steering
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at 20:03 on August 13th, 2008
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at 00:01 on August 14th, 2008
Thanks Paschen for Flag "Electric winglet shopping mal", Segway price round $5000, hope Toyota gets a more low cost version. Many Segways driving along the Beach at the Rivierea this year. The local Police bought round about 10 of them, touring the Beach streets and shopping streets in a acrobatic French speed tour. Well hope they don't get a speed ticket.
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