@jazzjeppe, you do understand that they frickin’ stand and balance on their own with just two wheels, right?
Lower-priced offerings from competitors universally rely on having 3 or more wheels so they don’t hafta pull off that balancing act.
So the Segway therefore offers a more compact package with significantly more technological underpinnings.
I do think they were hoping for economies of scale originally… but it never materialized. So now they’re mainly focused on government and commercial contracts. Like this.