Cart ID's
 

I think it would be advantages and helpful if The Village's established an ID Tag for golf carts. It would be a small "stick on" tab to the window with an identifier number. Since there are now between 60,000 and 70,000 carts there should be some way to identify the user/owner. The Villages could charge the cart owner $1.00 to pay for the stick on tag and list the numbers in the normal
village records. Your village ID could be used as the "control number":gc:

George Orwell would be proud

It is not clear to me how The Villages (the developer) could require such a thing. The CDDs control the MMPs - good luck with that. The roads are owned by the county - good luck with that.

Oh, that's easy. The state government through the legislature and bureaucrats could pass 20,000 pages of law and regulation with regards to ID on golf carts. They could pay for it by erecting toll gates on MMPs. Maybe the governor could even issue an "executive order"........

Politics is all about upside and downside. There is no upside and lots of downside.

Just what we need, more Government "Control"

Your reasoning for this is what and exactly why & for whom would this be advantageous and helpful?

There is a serial # on each cart

There have been several hit & runs--All motor vehicles on public streets should have an ID tag- some way of ID'ing a miscreant.

Anonymity leads to the degree of breaking the rules that are quite prevalent.

:shrug: Amazing. I don't think I would have moved to an area where I think rule breaking is quite prevalent. :undecided:

? how many "hit and run" cart accidents are there?
? how many offenders are either caught or come forward and confess?
like auto accidents, most victims and witnesses never think quick enough or see well enough to get a license plate #
also like auto accidents, the offender usually has a reason to run (DUI, suspended license, no registration or insurance) and therefore has probably already decided to run from an accident. To that end, they are the ones with no plate or one of those smoky gray plate "holders" that make it nearly impossible to read the plate anyway

All in all, you may be advocating a system of 60,000 cart IDs that in the end may catch no one. Like most "there ought to be a law" scenarios, this may be like firing a cannon at a tissue paper wall.

All I can add is...there will not be an identification sticker on my golf cart, mandated or not.

I think your intentions are good but the cure seems worse than the disease even if it could be done.

What I find remarkable and do appreciate is how the police take every crime seriously and how often they find the perpetrator. I think there are a lot more cameras around than we think. We also live in a world where most everyone is carrying a phone with a camera for stills and videos.

WoW
 

Wow, I am surprised that so many are against some form of identification for carts. You have licence plates for cars and I bet you all have licence plates ! What is different with carts? Some compare to Orwell, some threaten there will be no ID on their cart (bet they didn't remove the licence on their car?), some compare to more Gov't controls, but like and acknowledge community standards,
I have nothing to be concerned with, I don't drink so a DUI will not happen, I don't allow young children so that is not a worry, I respect the walkers and bikers on the cart paths, and try to obey good manners. What is the worry of those who don't want some control over identifying who may be drunk, may be endangering other carts, walkers, bikers, et al. If there is nothing to fear why
be afraid?:shrug: