This is just to remove freedom of transportation. As long as cars are on the picture it’s not going to make a real difference.
We do this for cars too, right?
Cars have license plates so it’s easier to just use cameras and send the ticket to the registered address.
So the answer is “No, but actually yes”
Also, while the roads have speed limits, cars don’t have a legal maximum speed capability, so yes but actually no…
The more comparable vehicle to an illegally fast escooter would be an electric moped or electric motorbike though…
My government is trying to make cameras illegal.
And if a cop sees a PEV hey think is going too fast, it seems they can pull it over and test it. If a cop sees a car they think is going too fast, we’ll they should have had the radar gun out, too bad.
There exists a book that dictate how car should be used, and another book that dictate the standard of car. If we want a human-scaled transport, we get human-scaled rule.
I’m surprised that nobody has pointed out that top speed under load is very different than top speed free-spin. Most of those motors drop probably a third of their potential speed once you actually step on them.
It says it can apply load.
Damn, a pocket dyno was not on my bingo card for this year.
This could be done for cars too, though with near every vehicle capable of doubling or tripling motorway speeds without modification, I’m not sure what the point of measuring it would be. Certainly it would be ideal if vehicles were required to have a limiter, but that wouldn’t have any impact on speeding down city streets.
Regardless, that speed on a scooter is just asking for a bottle cap to ruin your life.
This little briefcase dynamometer is undeniably clever – and it’s cool to see such portable testing tech in action. But it also highlights how outdated many micromobility laws have become. If we applied the same logic to cars, my mom’s minivan could triple the local speed limit, and she’d be at risk of getting it confiscated each time she drove to the supermarket.
What a stupid take. I don’t know what the reality is where the author is based, but where I live (and probably with our Swiss neighbors, where the topic of the article is located), you cannot make any vehicle faster without the required tech inspection and paperwork. If I decided to turbocharge my car to make it more powerful and faster than the approved engine output and top speed the manufacturer specced it at when it was sold, I need to have it inspected, deemed safe enough and have the papers updated. If the engineer at the inspection site thinks that the brakes and suspension are insufficient for 80 more horses, that’s no bueno. Back when I was riding my 50 cc Vespa, making it faster would have voided its official permission to be used on public roads and also meant that I would have lacked the driving license to operate any vehicle at those top speeds.
Limiting the top speed of electric bicycles and scooters is, most importantly, a matter of safety.
