We have the same issue in Indiana. Regristration has become mandatory but not insurance.If the moped is allowed to operate in vehicular traffic, the operator and the moped are a liability as is any other motorized vehicle on public streets. If the operator has been barred from operating a private passenger vehicle, the more reason for them to carry insurance.
This is just plain crazy. Many moped drivers have become aggressive in asserting their “rights” to putter down the middle of the travel lanes. Most of the time they cannot ride at the speed of normal travel and have a line of cars behind them as they are unwilling to pull to the side. Why am I paying tax on my vehicles? Why am I paying for a drivers license? Why am I paying for a tag? The *#$%$ freeloaders are a menace. Let’s just get them off the road.
Insanity, you are the one who is insane. Not all moped drivers are drunks and illegal aliens, and they have right too. They are human beings with as much right as you to travel on public roads. I can see keeping them off the interstate except maybe in the right lane, but they are saving the environment much more than your gas guzzling SUV. Give them a chance to make a living, otherwise they will be on the welfare dole with no way to make an honest living.
Unfair Burden has it correct. The moped drivers should be able to cause injury and damage and because we don’t have to be responsible for our actions, they don’t have to pay for it. As for my gas guzzler, the last I knew we were still in the USA where I have a choice about how I live my life. My free speech is gone, now your want to put less than responsible drivers on the road even though they could cause me to lose my work vehicle, and maybe my ability to work and they don’t have to pay for it.
Well now we have heard from both extremes.
Now how about a little common sense. If you drive a car and have a good job you are one of the lucky ones. Some folks are working at minimum wage and the best they can do is a moped. Some of them are barely able to feed their families as it is. Most of the moped riders are not drunks, they are the working poor that our government claims they want to help.
Yes a moped rider should ride on the right side of the lane but the automobiles are bigger and a lot safer so they probably should cut the guys a little slack.
How about both sides try to be sensible and maybe we won’t have to ban gas guzzling, carbon spewing suvs or slow, traffic blocking mopeds.
I ride a bicycle are you guys going after me next. By the way I’m 64 years old. My last ticket was forty years ago. My last accident was probably 25 years ago. I don’t think you have much to worry about from me. It is at least a hundred times more likely that a car will hit a moped than a moped will hit a car. As for damage I think most of the damage will be to your tires as you run over the bike.
That’s pretty much what the legislature said.
I have built more than a few motorized bicycles either gas or electric so I have a stake in this as well as the Chinese moped dealers. My wife drives a car so I see her point of view as well. I don’t see why we can’t all get along….Please don’t hit me with that stick officer….
I have a good job, a drivers license and a SUV. I have chosen to start riding a motorized bicycle for the simple fact that my SUV gets 12mpg and my bicycle gets 100+. I agree that mopeds and us bike riders need to stay to the right to allow traffic around us, but we have as much right to the road as anybody else. That’s why it is called a public road. I agree with Deacon that the chances of a moped or bicycle running into a car are much less than the car driver not paying attention and causing the accident.
We have the same issue in Indiana. Regristration has become mandatory but not insurance.If the moped is allowed to operate in vehicular traffic, the operator and the moped are a liability as is any other motorized vehicle on public streets. If the operator has been barred from operating a private passenger vehicle, the more reason for them to carry insurance.
This is just plain crazy. Many moped drivers have become aggressive in asserting their “rights” to putter down the middle of the travel lanes. Most of the time they cannot ride at the speed of normal travel and have a line of cars behind them as they are unwilling to pull to the side. Why am I paying tax on my vehicles? Why am I paying for a drivers license? Why am I paying for a tag? The *#$%$ freeloaders are a menace. Let’s just get them off the road.
Insanity, you are the one who is insane. Not all moped drivers are drunks and illegal aliens, and they have right too. They are human beings with as much right as you to travel on public roads. I can see keeping them off the interstate except maybe in the right lane, but they are saving the environment much more than your gas guzzling SUV. Give them a chance to make a living, otherwise they will be on the welfare dole with no way to make an honest living.
Unfair Burden has it correct. The moped drivers should be able to cause injury and damage and because we don’t have to be responsible for our actions, they don’t have to pay for it. As for my gas guzzler, the last I knew we were still in the USA where I have a choice about how I live my life. My free speech is gone, now your want to put less than responsible drivers on the road even though they could cause me to lose my work vehicle, and maybe my ability to work and they don’t have to pay for it.
Well now we have heard from both extremes.
Now how about a little common sense. If you drive a car and have a good job you are one of the lucky ones. Some folks are working at minimum wage and the best they can do is a moped. Some of them are barely able to feed their families as it is. Most of the moped riders are not drunks, they are the working poor that our government claims they want to help.
Yes a moped rider should ride on the right side of the lane but the automobiles are bigger and a lot safer so they probably should cut the guys a little slack.
How about both sides try to be sensible and maybe we won’t have to ban gas guzzling, carbon spewing suvs or slow, traffic blocking mopeds.
I ride a bicycle are you guys going after me next. By the way I’m 64 years old. My last ticket was forty years ago. My last accident was probably 25 years ago. I don’t think you have much to worry about from me. It is at least a hundred times more likely that a car will hit a moped than a moped will hit a car. As for damage I think most of the damage will be to your tires as you run over the bike.
That’s pretty much what the legislature said.
I have built more than a few motorized bicycles either gas or electric so I have a stake in this as well as the Chinese moped dealers. My wife drives a car so I see her point of view as well. I don’t see why we can’t all get along….Please don’t hit me with that stick officer….
I have a good job, a drivers license and a SUV. I have chosen to start riding a motorized bicycle for the simple fact that my SUV gets 12mpg and my bicycle gets 100+. I agree that mopeds and us bike riders need to stay to the right to allow traffic around us, but we have as much right to the road as anybody else. That’s why it is called a public road. I agree with Deacon that the chances of a moped or bicycle running into a car are much less than the car driver not paying attention and causing the accident.