Re: Golf cart registration
So people have already died in golf cart accidents. I'm not sure how registering carts, or teaching safety, will stop that. People die in automobile accidents, too. These are registered, licensed and insured.
I advocate insurance for carts, "lo-jack" like devices to trace stolen vehicles, some kind of labelling to keep them identifiable. Just not registering them! Neighborhoods in NY have occasional promotions at the police dept where identification numbers are etched into bicycles. Maybe that could happen. (lojacks and etching for golf carts, 2 new business opportunities for the enterpreneurs out there).
By the way, TV rental carts have governors that keep them at 14 mph for insurance reasons. When a 19 mph cart passes, it seems like you're standing still. It isn't that the rental is going 19 and everyone else is flying. I'm sure there are quite a few carts going in excess of 19, but don't let the experience of being passed in a rental make you think all the others are speeding.
I just don't think we need another arm of a beuracracy to try and mandate (yes mandate, the state wouldn't make it optional) usage of golf carts.
Think about the lobby that would be formed by all of the golf courses with huge fleets of golf carts were faced with the expense of registering them. This is a Villages wide problem, and we'd be making it a state wide problem by forcing the issue.
I am calm steve from NY
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