Getting around the Campground
Hi Everyone! Hope you are all having a great summer and getting in lots of camping time. The family and I have been doing quite a bit ourselves and thusly have decided to get some campground transpor...
Forum Discussion
BubbaChris wrote:
In California the Segway is supposedly legal any sidewalk and such you can walk. Gov Arnold signed it into law. Told to me by the Segway tour guide in Newport Beach, part of my special B-Day a few years ago.
What Governor Arnold signed into law after heavy lobbying by Segway was actually a little piece of legislation specific to that product that redefined it as a "pedestrian", thereby permitting its use on sidewalks.
Here's the language:
Ca wrote:Source
313. The term "electric personal assistive mobility device" or "EPAMD" means a self-balancing, nontandem two-wheeled device, that is not greater than 20 inches deep and 25 inches wide and can turn in place, designed to transport only one person, with an electric propulsion system averaging less than 750 watts (1 horsepower), the maximum speed of which, when powered solely by a propulsion system on a paved level surface, is no more than 12.5 miles per hour.
Amended Sec. 1, Ch. 106, Stats. 2007. Effective January 1, 2008.
It's not a blanket provision, however- for one thing only those Segways limited to the speed outlined are "protected", and rules codified elsewhere give local governments the right to regulate/restrict use of any/all models.
The law was of course intended solely to benefit that one company, but expectations have not been met. Hard to remember another product-specific "law" that accomplished so little for its sponsors!
