Scooter elettronici da regolare tra decessi e gravi lesioni
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/e-scooters-to-be-regulated-5HjdBXb_2/
di tylerthe-theatre
Scooter elettronici da regolare tra decessi e gravi lesioni
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/e-scooters-to-be-regulated-5HjdBXb_2/
di tylerthe-theatre
14 commenti
Shapps promised to legalise and regulate them ages ago and nothing happened. Hopefully it doesn’t get buried in civil service hell this time round
I wish they would just get on with it. There are several European countries with existing Legal Frameworks they could literally copy and paste. It really isn’t that difficult
Unless they are going to make it legal to use them in some circumstances then they should ban the sale of them.
To be clear, I would much rather they make them legal with some restrictions and regulation, but if they’re not going to do that then they should completely ban them.
They are already illegal to use on public footpaths but there is no enforcement. I got swiped by one the other as it knocked my elbow on its way past me – they just continued riding along
Just give the public a 250W/25Kph class they can buy and use with the same rules as bicycles and be done with it.
The only option they have right now is to legalise them completely but regulate what ones can be imported into the country, because theres not enough police in my town alone to go after all the people that have an E-scooter.
The amount of people riding around on these apparently oblivious to their surroundings is surprising, and im not talking about children or teenagers either.
Escooters are regulated. That’s why privately owned ones are illegal to use in public unless type approved etc as vehicles. They can’t be illegal or type approved if there’s no regulation.
The issue is that the law is all over the place – some of it’s vehicle law, some road law, some product safety law, etc all owned by different departments and enforced by different agencies at local and national level.
It’s an absolute mess and needs sorting – it’s farcical that I can walk into a high street shop or a reputable online store and buy, perfectly legally, an escooter that I then can’t use anywhere in practice for it’s clearly intended purpose. It’s one of the few areas in which there is credence to the Compoface “I bought this and now can’t use it” trope
Considering that the approach until now was “we’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas” hopefully the government will do something sensible that doesn’t involve banning an item which is already all over the country.
They should allow you to side kick them when they are on a footpath. That would make things more interesting.
A push for micromobility cannot come at the expense of safety for riders or pedestrians, but I don’t think people realise just how dangerous e-scooters can be. [In the government’s own rental trial it’s found that:](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1179786/national-evaluation-of-e-scooter-trials-findings-report.pdf)
* 1-in-20 e-scooter riders will be involved in a collision per year,
* 15% of these accidents will put someone in A&E,
* Per mile it is at least 3 times more lethal than a bike.
^((nb a limitation of the trial is that it doesn’t also look at issues caused by illegal private escooters without insurance or license)^).
It’ll only affect law abiding people.
The usual suspects will carry on riding their stolen scooters with impunity.
Just for fun replace the word e-scooter with car in the article.
When do they get the same? No reason they can’t be speed limited too.
Wouldn’t they have to enforce the regulations for this to be effective though?