Regarding your suggestion of not allowing vehicles with a top speed of 25 mph on 35 mph speed limit roads, I really don't see that happening. Bikes are allowed on roads with a 35 mph speed limit and few can maintain 25 mph for any length of time, let alone 35 mph. For better or for worse, the statutes allow slower moving vehicles to use the roads, including those in cars that choose to drive slower than the 35 mph speed limit. Roads are shared resources and we must accommodate the slower moving vehicles. On 4 lanes roads such as BV and Morse, we have a passing lane. Hopefully the slower moving traffic stays in the right lane.
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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
While I do't agree with LSVs going 40 mph, I don't like the idea that a vehicle that's only capable of going 25 is allowed to drive on roads where the speed limit is 35.
The law should be changed one way or the other. If LSVs can do 35, then they should be allowed to. But they should also have all of the safety equipment necessary such a four wheel brakes that are necessary to stop the vehicle at that speed. I've seen golf cart with plates and
Street Legal stickers on them that don't have a solid windshield or wipers. As far as I know, they should be declared to be street legal.
As far a people's concerns about them tipping over when swerving or being struck by a vehicle weighing ten times their weight, how is that any different from a motorcycle? Should we ban motorcycles because if they get hit by a ten ton truck they are in trouble.
I say let the LSVs go 35 or 40 but also make sure that they are equipped in every way to go that speed.
But we shouldn't be allowing vehicles that can only go 25 on streets where the speed limit is 35.
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