Soldato
Blind people cant hear them coming. This was a problem with EVs and now they have to make a noise at low speed.
The noise is for under 12mph which is lower than the max speed of electric scooters. Riddle me that.
Blind people cant hear them coming. This was a problem with EVs and now they have to make a noise at low speed.
Is there any definition about what scooters are actually legal? If I draw up a rental agreement to rent the scooter from my wife, for a 1p a week, is it now legal?
should make the wheels w/ spokes then you could just stick a lollipop stick in them.Blind people cant hear them coming. This was a problem with EVs and now they have to make a noise at low speed.
should make the wheels w/ spokes then you could just stick a lollipop stick in them.
Given the number of folk I see riding bicycles along the pavement in the city centre I can't see it being long before a pedestrian or rider is seriously injured or killed.
I think they're a great form (green, efficient, low cost) of transport but there are way too many idiots out there to blanket allow them without restrictions like licensing, testing before being allowed to ride them and police actually bothering to enforce the law preventing their use on the pavement.
should make the wheels w/ spokes then you could just stick a lollipop stick in them.
But I really don't understand the inconsistency with a cycle by adding this:
"Riders will need a full or provisional car, motorcycle or moped licence to use the vehicles, and they must be aged 16 or over."
From various threads on this, I think people and the government are still conflating eScooters with 50cc scooters far too much, they are much more akin to a cycle, anyone thats got one/tried one would no doubt attest it's just a bike you stand up on, similar speeds, similar road-usage etc, etc..
If you don't need a licence to ride a bike at 15.5MPH or be 16 or over, why would an eScooter need one? Having ridden some pretty powerful eBikes I don't really see how they are any different, or maybe the law needs changing for those too?
Also who’s going to ride them on roads? I’ve only seen them on pavements
I have a mobility scooter that is road legal, is insured and is registered with DVLA but the UK speed limit for it is only 8mph which obviously really ****** off motorists behind me.
I would have thought you'd be able to do 15.5mph!
Mind you 8 or 15.5 makes no difference to an impatient driver.
In Benidorm and rest of Europe that is indeed the max, but UK law is 8mph on the roads (4mph on footpath) and UK distributors are obliged to restrict scooters to 8mph.