P.U.M.A. - Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility

So...it's a wheelchair with a windshield, yes?
 
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Not too bad, except my commute is 17.3 miles since I have to avoid the highway, which means I'd need some way to charge it while at work. Plus, it would be much slower.
 
For that price, I'd rather get the TaTa.

I wonder how safe it would be in a crash...
 
This would be great for short trips to the store when I don't want to walk home carrying three or four bags of groceries a small pack of gum.
 
Well, you know, I saw this on TV and it made me think of the one wheeled motorcycle I saw in some magazine. My question is this, what on earth happens when you slam on the brakes? It seems to me that being able to slam on the breaks when you need to is a basic safety feature, but I just can't see anyway that can be done on such a vehicle.
 
Cobalt said:
I liked Toyota's better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IT7qK1hrro

(YT tags aren't working right for me.)
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I saw a very similar one when I toured the Aichi Toyota facilities at Toyoda city. I could have seen them in action at the World's Fair there as well, but no one in our group wanted to wait the six hours in line. While they are neat, and potentially useful, cities would have to make design changes to maximize their usefulness.

Still, betting than the Wall-E chairs.
 
How'm I gonna haul my firewood? And where do my dogs go? How does it do in snow? Mud? Washboarded dirt roads?

Don't think it'll work for me...
 
Looks like my next patrol car... I saw the Top Gear segment, thing was cute but I wouldn't like to encounter a Buick in one....

We have tried two different electric vehicles, the American Chariot:

http://www.americanchariot.com/products_security.htm

Which uses lead-acid batteries and has proved to have many problems, and the
T3 Motion:
http://www.t3motion.com/

Which has lithium-ion batteries and is computer-controlled.

Both these are intended for security patrols but might be adapted for short-range commuting.
Neither offer any protection to the operator.
 
Policenaut said:
Maybe this will be a new product for the Scooter Store.
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This is actually something I never quite understood about the Segway: What is its big advantage over a scooter?

The other thing I never understood is the whole gyroscope thing. It has an incredibly complex (and expensive) system of gyroscopes to keep the thing upright. While it's a neat piece of engineering, what's the big advantage over, say.... just adding two more, smaller wheels?
 
No way is that thing street legal, and I don't see it being allowed on the sidewalk either.
 
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Hmm I hope southpark is getting royalties :)

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