I had heard about those. I was making a bit of a joke though. They call these things "rascal scooters" where I'm from: Geez. The attitudes that motorists have about motorcyclists is really terrible here. Of course, some of that might be a little bit attributable to the douchebro attitude of many motorcyclists in this country too. All I can say from personal experience is, getting run off the road on a bike by a huge bus is a pretty pants-shitting experience that I think a lot of drivers of larger vehicles might benefit from.Piaggio does make freeway-capable scooters, but I think I'd rather have a little more geometry to my suspension if we're going to make that sort of rate.
I had to push my KLR to 95 in order to escape a homocidal semi driver and it was an "engines canna take much more'o'this captain" experience.