The Segway Human Transporter, a self-balancing, electric-powered human transportation machine, was hailed as something that was going to dramatically change the way we got from point A to point B.

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Scott Henshaw recently started using a credit-card reader that plugs into his smartphone at his family business, Pacific Transportation Technologies LLC, a machine shop in Kirkland, Wash.

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And with advances in big data, he sees that as a possibility - he compares the management of big data combined with machine learning with the shipping container revolution in transportation.

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"This is the biggest step forward in transportation since the Wright brothers, " the MP joked as he showed off the machine to the media.

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This will expand Verizon's machine-to-machine and telematics capabilities and accelerate revenue growth across key vertical segments of Verizon Enterprise Solutions, including automotive and transportation, energy, health care and manufacturing.

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