07 April 2009

GM and Segway team up to make awesome new two-wheeled urban vehicle

Via an article in the Wall Street Journal:

The machine, which GM says it aims to develop by 2012, would run on batteries and use wireless technology to avoid traffic backups and navigate cities.

Watch Dean Kamen of Segway talk about inventing and giving >>
Watch Larry Burns of GM talk about reinventing the car >>

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Kunal Gokal
Apr 8 2009
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Sean Parker
Apr 12 2009
Cute.Perfect for a traffic city for its compact design.Also,environment friendly toy car.Really interests me.
shlogblog shlogblog
Apr 8 2009
but really, seriously- wasn’t April Fool’s Day last week? The fact they’ve thunk up a sexy feline acronym and put some jazzy music in the background does in no way hide the fact that this is a wheelchair. I guess if we all drove wheelchairs it would make people in wheelchairs feel better and that’s a good thing.
Karen Bilich
Apr 8 2009
Interesting things going on in the automobile industry. It’ll be interesting to see how things shake out.
Calvin Chun-yu Chan
Apr 9 2009
I thought GM has already engineered an electric vehicle called EV1 more than 10 years ago? It’s a practical solution, drives like a car, and clean. Recommend everybody to watch the doc movie “Who Killed The Electric Car”.
Michael Hickins
Apr 9 2009
I live in NYC and would use this type of vehicle except for the fact that you can’t carry groceries and it seems a little exposed to Crown Vic livery cabs. It’s less nimble than a bike, which I do use. If you can’t actually use it for practical purposes, it’s another expensive toy and does absolutely nothing but waste resources that could be otherwise spent developing a really useful and energy efficient vehicle that could actually get mass adoption. It’s a shame that Dean Kamen had to approach a company like GM, which seems to have its head shoved as far up its rectum as possible.