General Motors and Segway have joined forces to create something larger than a Segway and smaller than a car. The end result will be the Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility Project (PUMA) whose goal is to deliver a self-balancing, two-wheeled vehicle that shuttles two people around at speeds up to 35 mph.
If you’re keeping score, that’s three times faster than Segway’s 12 mph top speed. It woill have a 35 mile range as well. The vehicle will be powered by a lithium battery and feature a built-in communications device that can “talk” to similar vehicles nearby.
No word on pricing yet, but it should be a quarter of the price of a traditional automobile.
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Cool. The Pope has his Popemobile, and now Obama can have an Obamamobile for he and Biden to ride around in.
On a more serious note – it likes dangerous without a helmet, or even with a helmet – I foresee alot of emergency room visits if people ever decide to take to the public roadways with these.