Driving and Roads

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EEPhil said:
What with all that and dodging potholes, speed bumps, cyclists, illegal electric scooters and skateboards you are going to have sensory overload. It's a jungle out there!
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I'll add to the list of illegal electric:... bicycles, unicycles, scooters, and skateboards.
Oh, and there's the mobility scooters (no licence plates) that decide to 'drive' on the road.
 
Owen Smith said:
You have however forgotten the illegal electric motorbikes that look mostly like bicycles. If you don't have to pedal to make it go it's a motorbike and needs tax, MOT and insurance and a helmet for the rider. Half of them ride illegally on pavements and cycle paths, and the other half ride illegally on the roads. No insurance means no-one to claim against when they kill someone.
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...and these are, in the whole; Just Eat, Deliveroo, Uber Eats, etc. 'riders'. These companies should have a liability for their 'riders' that are using illegal transportation - but just like it used to be for 'zero-hours' contracts, liability is probably all signed away to the 'rider' in their contract.
 
And on L plates. I would enact a law that nobody can pursue an occupation (eg delivery rider) on L plates, but that would just mean they do it without L plates. These pizza riders are illegals in illegal employment (IMO), able to get away with it because the fuzz are too timid to get involved.

HugeMaximum said:
It's all just entertainment, because we're all in a simulation anyway!
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I have a mate who says that. I'm not sure whether he's serious...

I might well believe everyone else I only meet online are a simulation, but for real life I apply Occam's Razor: the simplest explanation is likely to be right.
 
HugeMaximum said:
...and these are, in the whole; Just Eat, Deliveroo, Uber Eats, etc. 'riders'. These companies should have a liability for their 'riders' that are using illegal transportation - but just like it used to be for 'zero-hours' contracts, liability is probably all signed away to the 'rider' in their contract.
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Yes I'd noticed about half of the illegal electric motorbikes around Cambridge are food delivery riders.
 
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