There might be some niche in leaving them in parks and public places as entertainment pieces for bored passerby/tourists; but, as a transportation mechanism, just, no, I don't see it.
You heard it here first!
Edit: Could we have self-pogoing pogo sticks that could come and pick me up? What a bright future we have waiting for us.
Edit2: What about delivering pogo sticks by drone?
Season 2 Episode 5, can't find the video snippet online quickly, but here's the transcript. Read with a British accent if you're unfamiliar with the show!
Bruce Sterling did this already in the book 'Distraction'. He also had off-road vehicles with loads of pogostick legs.
edit - just re-read, did you mean pogo-stick drones that do delivery, or drones that deliver pogo-sticks? I went with the former, but am now not sure that is what you meant.
http://www.robothalloffame.org/inductees/08inductees/raibert...
I was considering getting one for my daily commute, but a part of me fears that no matter how skilled I got with it, riding over rough ground would still be a risky business. One pothole and your face is in the dirt. What would you change about current EUCs to make them more practical?
Edit: they are called UNI-CUB https://global.honda/innovation/robotics/UNI-CUB.html
Natural languages: where ambiguous meanings abound, and yet we manage to form complex social structures nonetheless.
In UK we say "to the next corner" sometimes (but not as a measurement, per se), I guess that would be equivalent?
It sounds like when you say "about a minute" that this would over-rule the "next intersection" part. So when you say "it's a blocks walk away" (or whatever) you're saying "it's a minute['s walk] away"?
That would be 100% equivalent when counting blocks. "Go four blocks and then turn left" means "go left at the fourth intersection". There will inevitably be some interpretive ambiguity when one passes a T intersection that only goes right. Was that a block even though there was no available left turn? Did the person mean "pass three lefts and this one doesn't count because it's a right"? Nobody knows. It's why we name streets now.
> It sounds like when you say "about a minute" that this would over-rule the "next intersection" part.
When talking abstractly, yes. "A block's-worth of walking" cannot be interpreted with any particular block in mind, so one must use an imaginary platonic ideal of block length.
It's not an actual measurement, but rather a figure of speech. Just like "round the corner" doesn't actually mean literally around the corner.
300 ft.-600 ft. or 100m-200m (which I'd hardly consider a long distance) is not a bad rule of thumb but it's certainly not a standard.
In both Amsterdam and Hague, city blocks (when they exist) seem to be surprisingly similar in size to those in Manhattan, New York. About 50-70 meters in one direction and 150-200 meters in the other direction.
Bro, do you even pogo?
I'm not saying pogo sticks as an onboarding strategy is a great idea but its also not nearly the worst idea i've ever encountered from a startup.
The opening paragraph has one of their Psychologist angel investors saying exactly this.