Segway Boards - confirmed illegal! Yay

[xjay1337]

Seems you can't go to a single VW show without seeing one of these buggers.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/12/...

Confirmed as not legal for use on the pavement in the UK.

Hopefully it will stop the selection of "sweg" teens from zooming about on the streets

What happened to good old fashioned walking.

Maybe I am too old.

[P-Jay]

xjay1337 said:

Maybe I am too old.

Maybe, I can't say I find them annoying or anything.

[Spiffing]

It's battling my way through hoards of kids on scooters on the way to school which gets me. When I was a kid and cycling/scooting on the pavement I was taught to pull over and stop if someone was walking towards you, not aim for them and go faster.

[Hoofy]

P-Jay said:

xjay1337 said:

Maybe I am too old.

Maybe, I can't say I find them annoying or anything.

Ditto. I just want a go.

[Dr Murdoch]

Hoofy said:

Ditto. I just want a go.

I think they're cool (if you're under 25).

[MikeyC]

struggling to undersatnd why they're illegal, but mobility vehicles arn't

[Disastrous]

Laugh. I read this and thought "what a bunch of killjoy ban-everything wkers. Still, I bet PH will be pleased" and lo and behold...

What problems do they actually cause that they are worth banning them for? As I read elsewhere today, "If these wkers were in charge years ago, we'd still be riding horses".

[MikeyC]

exactly, they don't cause any major problems that I can see, slower than the typical cyclist riding on the pavement !

maybe limit the speed, but that's about it

[Disastrous]

MikeyC said:

exactly, they don't cause any major problems that I can see, slower than the typical cyclist riding on the pavement !

maybe limit the speed, but that's about it

Worse than that, if you're broadly pro the banning of things, you need to accept that you won't have much of a leg to stand on when whatever your hobby is comes under fire. Motorsport, big engines etc.

[Einion Yrth]

It's just that they haven't worked out a way to tax them yet.

[Hoofy]

I think the basis is that they're motorised vehicles so cannot go on the pavement but they cannot go on the road because unlike motorcycles and cars there isn't an MOT. So basically, the only place you can use them is on your nice new laminate flooring.

[ReaperCushions]

Surely just the next fad that will come and go within a few months? not really the future of personal transport?

[Gilhooligan]

Had a great laugh Segway'ing around Prague last summer. This just sounds like another killjoy law brought in to address the lowest common denominator of idiot in our society, spoiling it for everyone else.

[eldar]

MikeyC said:

exactly, they don't cause any major problems that I can see, slower than the typical cyclist riding on the pavement !

maybe limit the speed, but that's about it

Indeed, it they were banned you'd miss the hilarity of people falling off them

[Hoofy]

ReaperCushions said:

Surely just the next fad that will come and go within a few months? not really the future of personal transport?

Yeah, I'm trying to figure out the point. Let's pretend we live in a country where they're not banned.

They don't move very fast. Walking pace? I suppose it's because it saves on walking. But how far can they travel before you have to carry a large lump of plastic?

[bimsb6]

Purity14 said:

MikeyC said:

struggling to undersatnd why they're illegal, but mobility vehicles arn't

Mobility Vehicles are Invalid carriages or for lazy fekkers
Balance boards are not.

HTH.

[chrisxr2]

I am the only one in my town with an electric unicycle which happily is immune from the laws as it only has one wheel, I am very considerate of pedestrians as you should be though, can imagine some places these hoverboard scooter things are everywhere.

[Kawasicki]

if it saves just one life....

[DragsterRR]

Because mobility scooters are limited to 4mph on the pavement.
These can do 12mph.
Mobility scooters that can do over 4 mph can go up to 8mph. If they do they aren't allowed to do it on the pavement they have to be in the road.
They are also equipped with indicators and brake lights.

[otherman]

Kawasicki said:

if it saves just one life....

or one scraped knee on a poor helpless child. Then a blanket ban would all be worth it. same should apply to all forms of transport.