We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
Posts must be:
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
If my driving teacher was right, as long as you don't go on a highway you can even push a wheelbarrow on a road, since it has a wheel.
On a highway your wheelbarrow needs to be able to do 60km/h, but if you can run that fast you are good.
(I learned to drive in Germany)
Not the law in BC, where this happened e scooters are also not legal to be ridden on roads or sidewalks.
Honestly pretty sure it isn't the law in Germany either. They have to get their cars certified as street legal, which wouldn't make any sense at all if they could just use a toy car instead. Why not say your car that has broken lights is actually a toy, and thus legal, if you could evade certification that way? Doesn't make sense.
As far as I know, if the vehicle's top speed is not above 6km/h, there are a lot less rules in Germany, e.g. you don't need a license and also no TÜV certification. Don't know how fast a barbie car goes though.
Well it's also a fifth of the scale. I would say if it's purchased for a child to play with it shouldn't have to be registered.
No obviously. But any vehicle you use to participate in traffic with has to be certified, so that it's safe enough for both you and others according to certain norms. So you couldn't drive a child's toy, which can't be certified this way, on a public road. You can of course still use it elsewhere and doing so doesn't require certification.
Not the law in BC, where this happened e scooters are also not legal to be ridden on roads or sidewalks.
Wait, seriously? So you can't use an e-scooter at all for transportation around a city?
kagis
It sounds like they started a pilot project last year, and in a number of cities, it is now permitted:
Honestly, I'm still surprised, though. Huh.
In Calgary personal e-scooters can only be used on the pathway system. Only rental e-scooters can be used on sidewalks as well as pathways. So you technically have to carry or push your personal e-scooter from your private property to the nearest pathway. Glad I went the pedal assist e-bike route.
Image source: https://www.calgary.ca/bike-walk-roll/bike-laws.html
In Toronto escooters are completely illegal. Unfortunately it's not enforced because they are a menace
I actually double checked that yesterday haha I was extremely surprised to see they were not legal. Basically no restrictions other than speed and where you ride them where I live.
He’s Kenough.
William Osman again?
so a person in a vehicle that is less dangerous than a car, who was going the speed of traffic on side streets, was arrested.
the police state that this was "oviously dangerous". to whom? i doubt he would be able to injure anyone in that thing any more than the full-size cars driving next to him.
I think the issue was that he was drunk.
If he was sober, he'd be a hero
To himself most likely. Consider how a large vehicle can crush a small vehicle made to safety specs.
Now consider how it would go if the small vehicle was made of plastic.
this is my point. the car is dangerous, not the toy.
It's a motorized vehicle so the operator needs to be licenced. And not impaired. The danger it poses is that it is unexpected for regular vehicles and someone could have an accident and hurt an innocent person while trying to protect the asshole driving the toy. It wasn't a cute stunt. It was a prohibited driver trying to get around his prohibition while yet again, drunk.
Better news than about the dead Nazi.