What a public relations disaster this one is going to be! The new owner of the Segway company takes his offroad model out for a spin and ends up going over a cliff. Story didn't say if he was riding it at the time he went over the cliff, just that one (a Segway) was recovered at the scene. Unfortunately the man died, either of injuries from the fall or drowning in the river some thirty feet below.
The worst thing about the story was the link to another story about how injuries have been getting worse for people riding on Segways. Duhhh! What happened when more people started ridding horses and donkeys instead of walking? They started getting worse injuries the longer they continued to ride them. Same with bicycles, motorcycles and anything else a person can ride on instead of walking. And don't fool yourself, walking ain't exactly a safe activity either. Just look up the statistics on how many people trip and fall while walking and end up in the hospital! Thousands!! And many of them even die, just like all the other activities that place the human body in any position besides locked in a padded steel box doing nothing but breathing and circulating your blood, and even then you can still die.
My condolences to the family of Jimi Heselden, he left this world early and unexpectedly with much work left to do. RIP Jimi.