I think personal safety is the overriding issue. Golf cart accidents are very numerous in TV and the serious ones, with injuries and fatalities, almost invariably involve cart vs. car. In those cases, the cart operator doesn't stand much of a chance. A local insurance agent informed me that there were 12 golf cart accident fatalities here in the last year. She said the police do not keep separate statistics on this, and because the parent company wanted to know the actual number, her staff had to search all local accident records. I had no idea the number was this high. Maybe I don't read the Sun carefully enough.
We all have heard about the constant problems with driver error in the traffic circles. Just about everyone has seen an accident there. It's common for drivers to exceed 40 mph on the major TV roads. Safety crash testing destroys vehicles at that speed. How many driver errors do we witness on those main roads, even in straight sections?
I will never put myself in a vulnerable LSV in those situations.
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