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Originally Posted by Peggy D
It has to be something mandatory
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I feel I have enough mandatory obligations to the government already and feel strongly about not wanting another.
How many times does this kind of thing happen, where someone damages a cart and runs off? Would these actions on the part of what I'd see as a very small number justify everyone needing to register? Next step would be driver's licenses and road tests. There'd soon be a Florida State Department of Golf Carts, with an annual budget that would need to increase regularly. Then annual golf cart inspections, again with a state fee and service stations installing new, separate bays and machines, and oh yes, another fee. Maybe tolls on some of the golf cart paths too to augment the fees. Then there's the re-testing of all the aging folks because sometime there will be an accident blamed on someone who is too old to drive (even though he's registered, licensed, insured and inspected) and they hit a cart and now everyone needs annual tests and on and on and on.....
And at the end of the day, someone so "ethically challenged" that they'd run off without owning up to the damage would still do the same thing, even with tags on their cart.
Has your automobile ever been dinged good in a parking lot by another tagged vehicle? Didn't the driver leave a note saying who he was, sorry for the damage, and offering to pay?
The tags won't be anything more than more un-needed government, and wouldn't help at all.
This should all be worked out with the insurance companies. Collision insurance for situations where you get hit and reduced premiums if you attend golf cart defensive driving school. That will work.
Did I mention NOT by putting more government in place?