EN-V and Project PUMA
Ah, the good old Segway hasn’t been standing still after all (sorry, bad joke).
On one hand, this keeps GM and Segway working together, as two tried-and-true giants of late-night talk show monologue jokes. In that vein, we preferred “PUMA” to “EN-V” — though seemingly well-designed, the Puma is rarely seen, and never becomes the dominant creature in its chosen environment.
Positive features? This new vehicle is meant to drive on roads, where it can interfere with cars instead of threatening pedestrians and bikers on the sidewalks, like the original Segway lineup. With a high-tech carbon fiber composite body, you may actually survive the kinds of collisions that you’ll experience at 30mph or less. Plus, they actually do look kind of cool, in a geeky undergraduate design project sort of way. Who hasn’t wanted to drive around inside a Roomba? (not that we think you’re stupid, but we should point out that the preceding is what we call a rhetorical question, phrased to denote a certain amount of irony. That sort of thing is hard to put across on a blog).
It’s probably safer for kids to start playing with junior golf clubs before attempting larger items like a segway. Start small and grow bigger.