Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2022 18:27:26 GMT
Aug 15, 2022 6:17:46 GMT @nemesis said:
The chap who wrote that must be a real genius. Personal transportation will definitely become an expensive luxury. This is why things like e-scooters will eventually be accepted despite all the objections and drawbacks (like the tool using it). It's not a 'plan' by 'evil politicians'. It'll just happen as a result of the most basic sort of economics.
There is an upside to this. If there are far fewer cars and vans on the road, and when it's accepted that e-scooters and such are ok to use on-road (just a matter of time), they become much safer for the user (and everyone else).
Fewer cars = declining rate of fatal RTAs.
From personal observation I would question your last paragraph UNLESS the police start enforcing the laws in place AND there is a compulsory test. As you say, it is the tools using them, but they speed through crowded pedestrian only areas (along with some cyclists), swerve all over the road, and shoot off pavements across junctions without even slowing down. I even saw an idiot on a privately owned scooter shoot out of a residential road and turn right across the front of a police traffic car with no action being taken against the rider.
Regulation of use and licencing laws won't do anything unless they are enforced. This would require a system of policing involving squads of cops also on e-scooters because cars are unsuitable to get involved in pursuit activities. But any such scenario seems unlikely to me.
However there has been a policy of arrest and confiscation in parts of London with some publicised arrests. Fines have been on a par with motoring offences. Longer-term and large-scale policing won't happen though; there's no money for it.