{"id":134571951,"date":"2009-04-07T13:05:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T13:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=134571951"},"modified":"2009-04-07T13:05:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T13:05:51","slug":"a-solution-to-the-worlds-urban-transportation-problems-could-lie-in-two-wheels-not-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=134571951","title":{"rendered":"A solution to the world&#8217;s urban transportation problems could lie in two wheels not four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK we knew that for a long time but coming from GM? Of course their vision on how to do more with less involves a chair, two wheels and a motor. While I would love to see more appropriate sized transportation options there is sort of an image problem as soon as you put a seat on a Segway, the prototype sort of looks like a souped wheelchair with wheelie and roll bars.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Streetsbolg&#8217;s take:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/segway_or_hoverchair.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/04\/07\/segway-gm-puma-vehicle-un_n_183908.html\">https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/04\/07\/segway-gm-puma-vehicle-un_n_183908.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.streetsblog.org\/2009\/04\/07\/cartoon-tuesday-gm-imitates-wall-e-with-la-z-boy-on-wheels\/\">https:\/\/www.streetsblog.org\/2009\/04\/07\/cartoon-tuesday-gm-imitates-wall-e-with-la-z-boy-on-wheels\/<\/a>oldId.20090407130551621<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK we knew that for a long time but coming from GM? Of course their vision on how to do more with less involves a chair, two wheels and a motor. While I would love to see more appropriate sized transportation options there is sort of an image problem as soon as you put a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=134571951\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A solution to the world&#8217;s urban transportation problems could lie in two wheels not four&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134571951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134571951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134571951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134571951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134571951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134571951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134571951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}