PUMA Vehicle by GM and Segway: Why It’ll Never Be Popular In the Phoenix Metro Area

GM and Segway unveiled a "reinvention of urban transportation" today -- the PUMA vehicle. If these things ever see mass production, it's a safe bet you won't see too many on Valley streets (see picture below). With a motorcycle, at least you can throttle your way out of trouble. These...
By Ray SternApril 7, 2009
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GM and Segway unveiled a “reinvention of urban transportation” today — the PUMA vehicle. If these things ever see mass production, it’s a safe bet you won’t see too many on Valley streets (see picture below).

With a motorcycle, at least you can throttle your way out of trouble. These things look like sitting ducks for every SUV-driving octogenarian in Sun City.

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Ray Stern is the former news editor of Phoenix New Times. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Arizona for more than two decades. He’s won numerous awards for his reporting, including the Arizona Press Club’s Don Bolles Award for Investigative Journalism.

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