British Jobsworths Prosecute Segway Rider

[threegee]

Just about every other civilised country encourages them and legalises them as an environmentally friendly method of transport, but our MOT knows differently.

http://www.telegraph...in-Britain.html

it would be " difficult " for scooters such as Segways to meet standards required to be classified as road vehicles.

Maybe that's because they are NOT road vehicles!

We would require robust evidence to support the benefits and further consideration of the risks posed to users and others before reviewing this.

Try using your eyes, and the half of your brain that you've still got left Jobsworth!

[michael lown]

Just about every other civilised country encourages them and legalises them as an environmentally friendly method of transport, but our MOT knows differently.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/7887212/Segway-driver-becomes-first-prosecuted-in-Britain.html

Try using your eyes, and the half of your brain that you've still got left Jobsworth!

why haven't mobility scooter drivers been stopped from driving on pavements?

[threegee]

The overpaid civil "servants" at the MOT have known about these for going on for ten years, yet they've sat on their a£$£s and done nothing. What the hell are they paid for!

Now the overwhelming evidence from other countries is that they are fine, all they have to do is create a "Compact Pedestrian Assister" or some such category; say they can't occupy more than so much pavement space, and exceed a certain speed. (Bearing in mind the current specs, and to prevent people using highly modded ones in public.) It's not a great leap in imagination, but clearly beyond the Jobsworths!

It's like the UK existed in some sort of separate universe with different physical laws from the rest of mankind. Or maybe it's our civil servants who do?

[tomtom]

I know that this subject has been on going for a few months now but let me just say that I have only recently returned from a few days in Barcelona where the Segway is commonplace and very widely used on pedestrian promenades without any 'elf and safety' fears.

[Andy Millne]

in Barcelona where the Segway is commonplace and very widely used on pedestrian promenades without any 'elf and safety' fears.

Just stay away from cliffs...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-11416654