Setting a speed limit for new scooter

ATLANTA - Remember that two-wheeled, self-balancing scooter introduced last year? <br> <br> Now state lawmakers are trying to figure out a speed limit for the invention. <br> <br> State law prohibits people from driving motor vehicles on sidewalks and other pedestrian paths. State Senator Steve Thompson of Powder Springs has introduced a bill to legalize it. <br> <br> The question -- whether to give the machines a speed limit of 15 miles an hour or eight miles an hour. <br> <br> The Segway Human Transporter was introduced by inventor Dean Kamen. It can go up to 12-and-a-half miles an hour. <br> <br> Thompson introduced his bill at Kamen&#39;s request.

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