Cops scoot into future with new technology / Bostn |Herald, 15 Oct 2006

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=162360
Shaun Tolson
Sunday, October 15, 2006 - Updated: 11:01 AM EST
"At the 113th annual International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center this weekend, one piece of new crime-fighting technology stood out as decidedly futuristic. The bulbous T3, developed by T3 Motion Inc. in Irvine, Calif., is a 240-pound electric vehicle that can be best described as the spawn of a tricycle and a Segway. “We like to refer to it as a tricycle on steroids,” said Gerry White, a retired Newport Beach police officer and national sales manager at T3 Motion. With an elevated platform, zero-degree turning radius, maximum speed of 25 mph and an operating cost of 10 cents a day, the T3 has turned a lot of heads during field tests in police departments on the West Coast. Apparently, it sure beats walking a beat. “We don’t see it replacing anything,” said Neil Brooker, president of the company. “We see it somewhere between a department’s mountain bike/foot patrol and motorcyle/car patrol.” [Brief]