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Unlike lucky Carrie Melago at the Daily News, we did not have the opportunity to test-drive the P.U.M.A.—a new battery-powered prototype from Segway and GM—but this HD video is the next best thing. Watch in wonder as the bespectacled white guy cruises through Brooklyn Heights at top speeds of 35 m.p.h., then, through the magic of Hollywood, winds up by the Flatiron building with a gal pal! Too bad there's no footage of his death-defying P.U.M.A. ride over the Manhattan Bridge.

      

We're all for environmentally sustainable motor vehicles, but can you imagine picking up your date in one of these? Yet this could be our dorky urban future, which even the most fanny pack-bedecked European would have no choice but to point at and laugh. But the joke's on them, because this compact ride's got a totally bad ass name: P.U.M.A., which stands for Personal Urban Mobility & Accessibility. The prototype, developed by G.M. and Segway, was tested yesterday on the streets of New York, and, miraculously, no cabs or Hummers plowed into the thing, though the drivers presumably sustained some damage to their dignity.

Happy Halloween! Warning: These videos of various animals at the Wildlife Conservation Society's facilities may be too distractingly cute.