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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In DC scooters are being used for transportation, not for fun.

And they’re growing more popular, not less[/quote]

Wait until someone will run into someone and you see the legal consequences. It is all fun and games. Sidewalks are for walking and not for riding. Anything that moves quietly and unexpectedly can be a disastrous. A walking person wearing earbuds or talking on the phone can make one step in the random direction not realizing there is a fast approaching  scooter behind who's driver assumes that the person will walk forward in a straight line. Just like bikes have no place on sidewalks, so should not scooters. The only solution would be to create lines on a sidewalk like they are on a highway and so people would walk with them, change lines as cars and everybody would flow like a car traffic. Otherwise it is a chaotic place based on a traditions and freedom of movement. Add to it fast moving object with a person who is rushing forward with speed.

E=mc2

You bump into someone while walking, it is bad, you bump into someone riding on the scooter it may cost you everything you own in legal fees and then some. Scooters are VERY expensive in that regard. The unfortunate thing is that until enough people get hurt the scooter owners will frolic forward until they will find it to be too risky financially.

EASY FIX: 
Scooters should be required to register with the DMV. They should have license plate like everything else that moves, and a person riding them should have a big white number on fabric like Marathon runner so if they ride in a dangerous way, they could be ticketed, reported and recorded. That would be the first step. Second step, the owners should pay insurance because if they hit someone, the person should have some legal recourse because injury can be serious to deadly with such a speed against a walking person. The insurance should be so high that
only super rich would be able to afford it and since they do not ride them in the first place, problem solved.[/quote]

That's a curious attitude. What about mobility scooters or handicapped scooters? I see no licensing requirement for these things and they stealthily sneak around on the sidewalks. Is the difference the driver?
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