I know I've banged on about this before, but my god how have we not regulated for private light electric vehicles (including e-scooters) yet? All I want is to be able to own (and insure) an electric monowheel and live my jetsons dreams.
I know, I'm looking forward to 31st May next year when the 3rd extension of the trial period is supposed to come to an end!
I agree I can't see what another year of data will do. I'm a bit more optimistic though. I'm in Cambridge and the rental ones are widely used here, and from that guidance doc:
> Responses received from the Future of transport regulatory review: call for evidence generally supported treating e-scooters like cycles and EAPCs.
Which leaves me hopeful we're heading to a good outcome, if not as fast as I'd like.
@mgj
Given what an utter mess the trial is, I'm not hopeful... The hodge podge approach has really regulated them out of any meaningful use case, at least in London. I can't really understand how another year of data could possibly help what must be an enormous sample size by now.