being without simple transportation, can make the short trip long. yesterday i had an interest to attend the first major automobile show in north america, the california international auto show. i was told that there would be many neighborhood electric vehicles (NEV) and the public introduction of the saturn ion. indeed the ion was there, and most like it will be mom’s next gasoline powered car, but their all electric shuttles lacked. i wanted to see the segway but it was not be be found. the most likely candidate at around $6,000 was the daimlyerchrysler GEM car. for a novelty, the sparrow was nice, but three times more than the GEM