GM: Have they been eating their bailout dollars?

This morning General Motors unveiled a new concept: the P.U.M.A. project. This project alone appears to reveal just about everything that is wrong with General Motors and why it might not be destined for bankruptcy, but rather total irrelevance and failure. 

The concept appears to be this: partner with the manufacturer of Segway to provide people will another excuse for not exercising or using mass transit. It's almost as if they put five people in a room and said "design us something that will make us the laughing stock of the auto industry." The P.U.M.A looks like a cross between a Ferris wheel bucket and something you'd ride at Epcot center. It's eerily reminiscent of the people movers all the fat people were riding around on in Wall-E.

Seriously GM, why not get into the business of building MAGLEV trains or highly affordable, zero pollution mass transit trains that towns could actually afford to build, maintain, and promote? Why not find the answer to moving rural and suburban people from home to work in cities 15 to 20 miles away? Why on earth would you design something for city dwellers who will have nowhere to store it and already have access to a wide variety of transportation that is being greened: taxi cabs, buses, and subways?

GM, you were supposed to spend that bailout money on solutions for the future. Not offer it as an appetizer in the lunchroom.