You?ll enjoy comedian Tim Slagle?s column in the July edition of Environment & Climate News. The topic is the PUMA, the enclosed street-traversing follow-up to the awesomely successful Segway. Slagle riffs with gleeful abandon:

It is being touted as a solution to gridlock, pollution, Iraq, the
energy crisis, and just about everything else the Left rails about.
It?s a glimpse into the future of transportation.

Great. A new car that is capable of reaching the blinding speed of
35 mph … for an hour, before you have to plug it in. (It is
specifically intended for urban transport, since a cross-country trip
would be quicker in a covered wagon.) It has no trunk or radio, no heat
or air conditioning, and when it rains, you get wet.

Boy, I can?t wait for the future!

This isn?t the future I was promised. The future was supposed to be
full of flying cars, and jet packs, and robots that dusted the
furniture while making sarcastic remarks. Instead we have these Logan?s
Run death carts that might someday be controlled by a remote processor
and could be stopped from a central command if you try to flee the city
before your 30th birthday and mandatory euthanasia.