Project PUMA

[EricVanWyk]

Originally Posted by JamesBrown

Aside from the Cool Factor, is there any real reason for this vehicle to have 2 wheels? It seems like GM designing this with Segway will really just make it a more expensive vehicle then necessary. wouldn't it be cheaper to produce a more traditional (4 wheel) vehicle with similar range and performance specs?

-James

p.s. Is it just me or do those rear wheels look very familiar?

If you look at it from the back, it looks like they took two segways, chopped off one wheel from each and bolted them together.

I'm going to guess that it balances because this came from Segway asking "Now what do we do?" However, two wheels is more efficient than four: The iBots most efficient means of locomotion is in balance mode, assuming you keep moving and don't burn power balancing in place. I did notice a small caster wheel, perhaps this deploys at stop lights?

I don't really know, I'm just enjoying the guessing game.