re: #19 lawhawk

I’d call them aggressive firebugs given the way that they seem to cause fires.

Most of them are made in China, and I’ll bet they are not UL or TUV approved. XiaoMi, the company that made my cellphone, also markets a mini-segway for a couple of hundred dollars. I’d trust it not to catch fire, since XiaoMi is reputable, but the other units I’ve seen sold here I’d stay away from.

The single-wheel ones are becoming more common here than the two-wheelers.