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Turn off the nav system, crumple up that MapQuest printout, and let's find out where the next random turn may take us!
 You're looking at Honda's U3-X, their new 'personal mobility' device that, according to the Daily Mail, "could one day be zipping up and down our streets."
If you're too lazy to walk, just sit in front of the TV like a normal person! And if you're too weak to get around (Honda said the machine is meant for the elderly) how the heck are you going to operate the thing.
First the Segway, now this. How are there any cars left on the road now that the future of transportation is here?
 Just another sign of the waning power of Detroit as the geographical center of the auto universe from freep.com
Tigers and Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch has taken over sponsorship of the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl -- known for the past 12 years as the Motor City Bowl. This year's game will be played Dec. 26 at Ford Field.
Former Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr, who retired following the 2007-08 season, was named president of the bowl's board of directors and will be counted on to use his in-state and college football contacts to mobilize the game's board of directors.
Carr, who grew up in Riverview, talked of the importance of being involved with an event with strong local ties.
I wonder if those strong local ties will include any connection to the auto industry?
 SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina sheriff's office has paid more than $1 million to a local auto repair shop for service and maintenance despite the fact that the county has its own fleet service department.
The Herald-Journal of Spartanburg reported Sunday that the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office does not have a contract with the shop, and Sheriff Chuck Wright did not seek bids for the work as required by the county's procurement code.
Wright said he sent the department's vehicles to an outside vendor because the county maintenance shop isn't equipped to handle the high volume.
Wright said he follows the county's procurement policy, but said he thought it was just a suggestion. Later, Wright consulted the S.C. Sheriff's Association and determined that he should comply with the policy.
Right, it's not a policy. More like a guideline.
 We all know about GM declaring bankruptcy, dropping brands, and cutting back where they can. GM has been cutting back on sponsorships on everything from professional baseball to NASCAR. In July, Gm ended its 51 year sponsorship of the Buick Open tournament, In 2008 GM ended a nine-year endorsement deal with golf superstar Tiger Woods, which brings us to yesterday... 
For the first time since 2004, Tiger Woods goes through a season without winning one of golf's major championships, and as icing on the cake, he loses a major championship that he was leading going into the final round for the first time ever.
Coincidence?
 If you ever want to take a look at some of the goofy things people do with their cars and the situations they wind up in, visit Wrecked Exotics.
I especially like looking at the weird accidents like this one where the driver of the vehicle had just gotten a ticket and was so angry he didn't realize he was in reverse when he tried to peel away.
I bet the follow up ticket made him happy too!
 I bet the police hear some doozies when it comes to people trying to get out of tickets. From MercuryNews.com we may have a candidate for one of the worst choices ever for trying to evade the long arm of the law.
ELKO, Nev.—Authorities arrested a 27-year-old Elko man after a high-speed chase and a bomb hoax that shut down Interstate 80 for several hours in northern Nevada.
Elko County Undersheriff Doug Gailey says Matthew Hellaby took off after he was pulled over Wednesday by a trooper east of Elko. With officers in pursuit, Gailey says Matthews phoned police dispatch and threatened to blow up ammonium nitrate in his trunk unless they backed off.
Gailey says after troopers spiked his tires near Wells, Hellaby turned around and drove at officers. One sheriff's deputy fired his gun at the approaching car but missed.
Gailey says Hellaby was eventually stopped and arrested after he dodged a road block and his flattened tires bogged down in soft dirt off the highway.
No explosives were found.
Good choice. Flee and threaten that you're going to blow up a bomb to escape a traffic ticket. It must free up so much time when you're not thinking.
 We're on the road this weekend at a graduation party for my nephew (Congratulations Ryan!) and we had someone with us who had never seen Roadside America in Shartlesville, PA (Exit 23 on I-78)
It's a real slice of Americana and a welcome stop if you find yourself in need of a break heading across eastern PA.
An 8000 sq ft train layout. And some people say that I have too much time on my hands!
 Now this is the kind of thing you go to auto shows for. On Sunday at MotorFair in Scotland, there was a drag race won by Jet-Pack Man and he set a possible world speed record of 68 mph, measured by a cop with a radar gun. The Guiness folks are considering the application.
 SInce it's Speed Month in Indianapolis, I though I'd focus on speed for the rest of the month, and the first shiny thing that caught my eye was this item from the Chicago Tribune.
PEORIA, Ill. - Authorities in Peoria are lowering the speed limit in the city's Washington Park, and they say the new ordinance will apply to bicyclists, as well as motorists.
The speed limit in the park is scheduled to drop from 20 to 15 mph by the end of the month, and Captain Jonathan Davis of the Part District Police says the average speed of a bicycle through the park is currently anywhere from 18 to 21 mph.
Davis says speeding cyclists could be issued warnings or citations, depending on the seriousness of the offense.
I suppose the park police had to do something to stop those scofflaws, although I doubt this will lead to a pedal-powered version of Smokey and the Bandit anytime soon.
 Perhaps you've seen the story on Straightline about the collaboration between GM and Segway on a two-seat, two-wheel electric mobility pod called Project P.U.M.A, which stands for Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility.
A 2-seater Segway. Yea that will solve GM's woes. But I digress.
My favorite thought about the whole idea came from Larry Burns, GM's vice president of research and development, and strategic planning.
Ideally, the vehicles would also be part of a communications network that through the use of transponder and GPS technology would allow them to drive themselves. The vehicles would automatically avoid obstacles such as pedestrians and other cars and therefore never crash, Burns said.
Yea... right... Hey! Watch THIS!
Read more at Straightline and Yahoo Finance
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