In a pedestrian-oriented town, it’d be nice if you had a car to do the occasional big errand, picking up friends at the airport or going out on a date.  However, the frustration of finding parking and getting parking tickets is usually too much to bear.

So I tried Zipcar.  I made a quick online reservation, walked a few blocks, waved a ‘smartcard’ at the windshield and opened the keyless door.  Away I went, and back I came, right to the Zipcar’s permanent reserved parking spot.  Brand new

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If you don’t want to get yelled at, don’t ride it on the sidewalks in the city.

If you want to look cool riding a Segway, you’ll have to ride it in the streets.  That way, the public perception will be that you’re someone who’s triumphed over traffic congestion, saved thousands by not buying a car and is starting a trend for pedestrian-oriented streets.  However, if you ride it on sidewalks, people will give you looks like you’re lazy, have way too much money for your own good and simply

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Just ask anyone who recently got a parking ticket. To quote Mark Frauenfelder, “It works on some level, and so you don’t want to make that jump and take the effort to do it, but then once you do it, you realize you should have done it a long time ago.“  Unfortunately, for many of us there aren’t any better prospects.

People who live in the coolest towns (Manhattan, Chicago, Seattle, Paris, Singapore, Prague) rarely own (or need) a parking space, so maybe this fact will help understand our

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