content: Doesn't seem like people are scrambling to buy the Segway. Why did they build this?  VW may be doing it as a "last mile" part of a mass transit commute. For Americans in urban sprawl (chiefly their West Coast), public transportation is not as built up as New York City or Chicago, so there is a lot of walking / bussing / biking to be done after a train ride. This is intended to fill that gap.