Comfort and safety are the top features when it comes to buying a new car, so in an attempt to make its U3-X personal mobility device more consumer-friendly, Honda has improved both those aspects in its new Uni-Cub concept.

Japanese engineers thought that allowing Matt Lauer to ride the Honda U3-X on the Today Show this morning was "too risky," but I sweet-talked them into letting me roll through Times Square on it. Cybernetic unicycle, meet New York.

The Honda U3-X, the automaker's new personal mobility device, is a boom box-looking one-person unicycle-like scooter for office use, home mobility and travel on sidewalks without interfering with walkers, as seen in the awkward video and gallery below.