# You need a motor on that thing... why?? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 31, 2004, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482 "2004-08-31T22:55:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482/21 "2004-09-01T16:15:13Z")
Wait. Did you ever hear the stroller buzzing when the woman wasn’t around? Maybe you’re thinking it was a motorized baby cart when it really was just a motorized woman pushing a normal cart! ---
**Author:** ![Eyke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Eyke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyke)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482/22 "2004-09-01T16:36:01Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > This leaves mom with more time to chat on her mobile phone and do her nails when she drives. 😃 Damn near passed a round steak thru my nose! :eek: Amazing…just smeggin’ amazing! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482/23 "2004-09-02T02:41:04Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Probably a vain hope in defense of the lady, but are there a lot of hills in your town? It’s Portland Oregon, so there are _some_ here and there. But from the store to her car was 100% flat. That is a good point and I suppose if you have a vast amount of hills around your house, and feel like wasting $700 on a baby cart, this might be the thing for you. I can see someone with a back problem or limited mobility in their arms finding this quite useful in that case. But, I would also figure someone like that might want to consider something lighter which you can take in and out of your car when making shopping stops. So I’m not sure someone like that would bother. Of course, I’m going to guess this product isn’t marketed to people with mobility problems… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![claaariii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@claaariii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/claaariii)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482/24 "2011-05-16T03:37:53Z")
so this post is like 7 years old, lol…but i google “motorized baby stroller” to see if they even existed cuz i thought it would be a good idea, and it came up in the first page of search results…so, while it does exist, looks like they’re not so common, as i couldn’t find a single review of an actual user…now for the reason why i thought it would be nice: i have a 1 year old and a 3 year old, super-tough 3-wheel jogging stroller. we don’t have a car, yet, so we do a lot of walking, i like it, the boys love it. thing is that sometimes we walk a LOT, so i pile both of them into the stroller together, cuz the 3 year old is older, but he’s still little 🙂 so that’s 55 pounds of little kid on the 10-poundish stroller…and of course we don’t usually walk around just because…we go 10-12 blocks to downtown and do some shopping, and, try as i might to spread things out between different days/trips, we always end up buying one of these, one of those, just a little bit of that…and before you know it we have another 30 pounds of groceries shoved in the storage basket underneath the stroller. so we’re walking home (oh…forgot to mention…SUPER hilly area, and we happen to live at one of the highest points in town…) 8 blocks of total uphill, last 3 are at least a 35 degree slope…so the other day pushing at least 95 pounds of stroller/boys/groceries, between little stops to catch my breath, i thought “geez it would be nice to have a motor on this…” i actually even imagined it with an extra little spot for me to stand on 🙂 but i would not use it in a completely flat area, and definitely not in the supermarket. that’s just super ridiculous and lazy. just wanted to give a good situation where it might be useful though…but meanwhile i guess i’ll just keep working out my biceps, becuase i wouldn’t actually buy it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482/25 "2011-05-16T05:01:24Z")
zombie strollers for zombie babies… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482/26 "2011-05-16T05:07:50Z")
As an incidental note, motors and explosives make everything cooler. Racing stripes, too. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482/27 "2011-05-16T05:11:45Z")
When I first read the thread title I just _knew_ this was going to be about women and vibrators. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482/28 "2011-05-16T06:37:29Z")
I can’t find a single powered baby stroller anywhere online. I think this post was a fib. Old ass fib. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482/29 "2011-05-16T07:23:04Z")
[Powered baby stroller](http://strollersandprams.com/strollers/172/Peg-Perego-Dinamico/reviews.html) ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482/30 "2011-05-16T07:25:43Z")
> [@dwyr](#): > > [Powered baby stroller](http://strollersandprams.com/strollers/172/Peg-Perego-Dinamico/reviews.html) I stand corrected. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482/31 "2011-05-16T07:30:44Z")
Well no wonder she needs an electric stroller. The baby is around 7 and a half years old now. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482/32 "2011-05-16T07:58:48Z")
> [@Lsura](#): > > [My PAL Motorized Baby Stroller](http://members.aol.com/mypalstroller/myhomepagemypalstroller.html). > I don’t know if it’s what you saw - it’s hard to tell how bulky/heavy this one might be from the photo. Link leads to some page that requires a sign up, many people won’t sign up to random pages. Also, when googled, no images of the horrid thing are available, no shopping link, no manufacturers web page. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482/33 "2011-05-16T08:04:55Z")
30 pounds, the stupid woman couldn’t lift 30 pounds? With my fucked up back I can lift 30 pounds into the trunk of my car. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482/34 "2011-05-16T13:32:54Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Link leads to some page that requires a sign up, many people won’t sign up to random pages. > > Also, when googled, no images of the horrid thing are available, no shopping link, no manufacturers web page. I tried it too. All the links in this thread, like sinews in a a rotting corpse, are broken. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482/35 "2011-05-16T13:52:20Z")
I think it would be great to get two of these things, point them at each other, and have the babies play chicken for pink slips. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482/36 "2011-05-16T15:14:13Z")
I’m going to guess it has something to do with a trend of one-upmanship in urban mommy culture. Consider the rise of high-end strollers, organic free-range diapers, and the like. Do mommies buy expensive Maclaren and Stokke strollers because they’re good strollers, or because they want to impress other mommies? One trend I’m starting to see more of now is children well beyond toddling age in strollers. We’re talking kids from four to eight years old. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482/37 "2011-05-16T15:34:47Z")
If she couldn’t even lift it into her car, that makes me think she might have been using someone else’s stroller. Maybe it was her sister’s kid or something, and her sister has MS or is a paraplegic. Maybe she’s just rich and lazy. Who gives a **shit**? ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482/38 "2011-05-16T16:21:31Z")
Wouldn’t a 20 pound six month old be monstrously huge? Also, that kid is seven years old now. Kinda weird to think… Before anybody says it, I looked it up, and am wrong. 20 lbs is within the healthy weight range for a 6 month old. How soon we forget… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482/39 "2011-05-16T17:17:35Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > I see this woman later in the parking lot. As I expected she wasn’t having a good time hefting this machine into the back of her HUGE Cadillac Escalade. I had to stand and watch to see if the benefit of a powered baby stroller outweighed the hassle of getting it into the SUV. Plus, I’ll admit I rather enjoyed watching someone decadence bite them in the ass. > > So she tries a few times to wrangle this bugger into the SUV, but honestly it didn’t seem like she was trying very hard. And then, for the second time today, I was actually surprised by what I saw. She hit up an fellow walking by for assistance. I couldn’t hear what she said, but he hefted the thing into the back for her as she directed him with pointed fingers and arm movements. She waved a good bye and pulled herself into her suburban tank. Must be because her husband [White Middle Class Suburban Man](http://www.derfcity.com/cityarchive/wmcsm/wmcsm10.html) was busy elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482/40 "2011-05-16T21:01:39Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Wouldn’t a 20 pound six month old be monstrously huge? > > Also, that kid is seven years old now. Kinda weird to think… > > Before anybody says it, I looked it up, and am wrong. 20 lbs is within the healthy weight range for a 6 month old. How soon we forget… What I want to know is how big that baby’s head _really_ was. The poster said normal baby head. I’m not aware the word normal applies to a baby’s head. I’m thinkin’ 8-12 pound bowling ball. Basketball size maybe? Because other than the medicine ball sized ones (which seem to have their own atmosphere) they really vary in size. Inquiring minds want to know. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-a-motor-on-that-thing-why/262482.md?page=3)