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GM Fiddles with Segway Toys While World Economy Tanks - COMPLETE VIDEO

EDITOR"S NOTE: Yesterday, in what may be bare hours before the momentousdecision to grip what was once upon a period the world"s largest automobile maker into Chapter11 Bankruptcy, General Motors joined with Segway Corporation to announcethe happening of a two-seat urban conveyance called the SMEGMA... oh, I meanthe PUMA (an acroynym representing Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility).
Below, you"ll discover the complete subject-matter to release, along with the completepromotional video issued close by the two parties. But first, some comments.
General Motors managing could be obsessed and should be obsessed forseen the manner theyare at current on. Perhaps bankruptcy desire at no period genuinely happen, and perhapsvaluable dollars and period desire not be wasted on perfecting a plaything that wouldhave no greater value than assisting people too indolent to advance up and down theAtlantic City Boardwalk. GM could have, and should have, sped up productionof alt-fuel vehicles that would be obsessed stated them something to vend rightnow. Instead, they rammed more and more gasoline-guzzling vehicles into thepipeline. For example, they worked on irritating to complete a fuel-efficient Hummer, whenthey should be obsessed been working on kicking Toyota and Honda"s assortment asses.The VOLT should already be in showrooms; if not with lithium-ion batteries,then with Nickel-hydride.
But, of course, I"m not fair talking aboutelectric-powered alternatives, I move ahead risk in to the identical item that The AutoChannel has harped on representing at least the hindmost couple of years: CNG andPROPANE. The American carmakers be obsessed the knowledge, the experience, the factories. They couldhave helped demolish the insane oil/gasoline producers, but they"ve onlyenriched those crooks further, while destroying themselves.
And I"ll conditions again what we first said hindmost fall, if anyone should be obsessed bailed exterior the automobile makers,it should be obsessed been OPEC and the gasoline companies, not the Americanpeople. So, hey GM, adequate with the planning and developing toys; startbuilding and selling genuine products.
Marc J. Rauch, Exec. Vice President/Co-Publisher

NEW YORK - April 7, 2009: NEW YORK - General Motors Corp. and Segwaytoday demonstrated a new class of conveyance that could exchange the manner we movearound in cities.

Dubbed Project P.U.M.A. (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), GMand Segway are developing an electrically powered, two-seat prototypevehicle that has lone two wheels. It could acknowledge people to itinerant aroundcities more quickly, safely, quietly and cleanly - and at a drop totalcost. The conveyance also enables design creativity, fashion, jollity and socialnetworking.

GM and Segway announced their collaboration, while demonstrating theProject P.U.M.A. model in New York City this morning.

"Project P.U.M.A. represents a single solving to moving circular andinteracting in cities, where more than half of the world"s people live,"said Larry Burns, GM immorality president of investigation and development, andstrategic planning. "Imagine small, agile charged vehicles that knowwhere other moving objects are and avoid operation into them. Now, connectthose vehicles in an Internet-like spider"s web and you can greatly better theability of people to move because of cities, discover places to garden and connectto their communal and accountability networks."

Trends dot exterior that urbanization is growing, and with that comesincreased congestion and more competition representing parking. Cities about theworld are actively looking representing solutions to alleviate congestion andpollution. Project P.U.M.A. addresses those concerns. It combines severaltechnologies demonstrated close by GM and Segway, including charged push andbatteries; dynamical stabilization (two-wheel balancing); all-electronicacceleration, steering and braking; vehicle-to-vehicle communications; andautonomous driving and parking. Those technologies combine in ProjectP.U.M.A. to grow mobility freedom, while also enabling energyefficiency, zero emissions, enhanced safety, seamless connectivity andreduced congestion in cities.

"We are aroused to be working together to display a dramaticallydifferent close by to urban mobility," said Jim Norrod, CEO of Segway Inc."There"s an ardent uniting you get when using Segway products. TheProject P.U.M.A. model conveyance embodies this because of the uniting ofadvanced technologies that Segway and GM carry to the food to complete theconnection between the rider, environment, and others."

Project P.U.M.A. vehicles desire also acknowledge designers to build newfashion trends representing cars, and to centre on the passion and faculty of put one"s hand on thatpeople articulate because of their vehicles while creating solutions thatanticipate the days needs of urban customers.

The Project P.U.M.A. model conveyance integrates a lithium-ion battery,digital intelligent energy management, two-wheel balancing, dual charged wheelmotors, and a dockable consumer interface that allows off-board connectivity.The outcome is an advanced and utilitarian concept that demonstrates thecapabilities of technology that exists today.

Built to carry two or more passengers, it can itinerant at speeds up to 35miles per hour (56 kph), with a range up to 35 miles (56 km) betweenrecharges.

Since the introduction of the Segway Personal Transporter (PT), Segwayhas established itself as the chief in the little charged conveyance space.Its close by to congestion and environmental challenges is balanced with astrong agreement of the utilitarian needs of its customers, enablingthem to do more with less. Segway has delivered more than 60,000lithium-ion batteries to the market.

GM has been a chief in "connected vehicle" technologies since itintroduced OnStar in 1996. Today, this on-board communications packageconnects six million subscribers in North America to OnStar safeness andsecurity services. GM has also pioneered vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V)communications systems and transponder technology. These and additionalconnected conveyance technologies could finally equip vehicles that don"tcrash and push themselves.

"Imagine moving circular cities in a conveyance fashioned to your taste,that"s jollity to push and be seated on in, that safely takes you where you desire togo, and "connects" you to friends and family, while using clean, renewableenergy, producing zero conveyance tailpipe emissions, and without the stressof movement jams," said Burns. "And believe of doing this representing one-fourth toone-third the charge of what you recompense to own and go today"s automobile.This is what Project P.U.M.A. is able of delivering."