The Washington Post reports that Segway Human Transporter inventor Dean Kamen is lobbying the federal government to buy some of his futuristic scooters, which have apparently been selling like hotcakes cold, day-old hotcakes. Kamen is said to be proposing that U.S. soldiers would use them to scoot around on the battlefield, and park rangers would use them to zoom about through national parks.
The inventor, a proponent of free markets, also wants Congress to help him sell more Segways to consumers by funding projects that would create paths for the scooters in cities, and by providing environmental tax credits to people who buy them.
