[islandgal]

Originally Posted by Muncle

Let's see. We're going to take a legal golf cart and mandate registration ;D ~~ not a street cart that exceeds 19 mph but one of those beige two-seaters they rent you that barely makes it up the hill.
Since TV has not law enforcement authority and we sit in 3 counties and 1 or 2 municipalities, you're looking at a state law. We'll ignore having the law then apply statewide to the hundreds of thousands of carts in Florida. But now we want to make seat belt mandatory. Nice add-on, but mandatory on all carts? :dontknow: How many accidents have we seen where the cart has rolled? Quite a few, I'd think. Obviously, mandatory roll bars are needed. Probably ought to have helmets, too. Luckily, the gas carts have no problem with CAFE standards, but the EPA might still be an issue. Better add some emissions controls. Steve & others have discussed the bureaucracy, so we can skip the Department of Golf Carts Department and all it entails.
However, if we do get toll golf paths,
I'm getting a Sun Pass so I can avoid the booths and not have to carry all that cash all the time.

Muncie - You crack me up!

I think you should arrange for all of us to hear the "voices". (Surely you can arrange some way for TOTV to temporarily have sound on this site just for you to share them with us.

The voices must contribute to your humorous posts! (Or were you formerly a stand up comedian?)

Thanks for your fun posts! :joke:

[Muncle]

I laugh to hide the tears. :realmad:

It's often the only thing that keeps me off the roof with the M16 :dontknow:
"Scope?? ??? Scope!!!" :yikes:

[SteveFromNY]

Originally Posted by Muncle

I laugh to hide the tears. :realmad:

It's often the only thing that keeps me off the roof with the M16 :dontknow:
"Scope?? ??? Scope!!!" :yikes:

Got a license for that M16?

[silverado]

with muncle. I haven,t lived in tv very long, but sometimes you like to think you move to tv to get away from some of that bureaucracy. I,m sure somthing may need to be done. Maybe i2ridehd is on the right track.

[DENNIS G]

Registration should be required, not only for identification of the owners but would make the cart traceable if stolen. There is no way to trace a cart at the present time unless it is an LSV which requires registration. Common keys on most carts make them easily stolen and no way to trace. There are more carts stolen than most people hear about. Our friends Yamaha was stolen at the bowling alley. The Police told him that it would probably never be found. Bill of sale could be phonied up and no one would ever know the difference. They could be even sold to a dealer. He also told him that there 6 others stolen in two last two days.

When I lived in Alaska, we had to register our snowmobiles.

[Peggy D]

Well maybe "Mandatory" wasn't the right word.....calm down guys!!
But asking people to Slow Down isn't going to do it.

As for gulf carts going 19 mph--not hardly!! When we visited TV we rented one. Carts were passing us like we were standing still.

HD had a good idea with the HOG-type driving school, but I can garantee you would only get about 25% of the residents attending, and those would be the ones that are already safety-minded. What about the other 75% who think they know how to drive a golf cart.

Let someone (God forbid) die because of, or secondary to, a golf cart accident...

Dennis, that was a good point you brought up. How DO you track a stolen, unregestered golf cart??

Think I'll "re-think" getting a cart when we move down there!!

[billethkid]

I suggest looking at how well registration of automobiles makes drivers toe the line....yeah right!
Registration.....for anything....only binds the law abiding citizen.
That said I would be in favor of a non fee based VIN for golf carts....yes it may have many negatives, but there are some significant pluses.

BTK

[SteveFromNY]

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

[Muncle]

Steve, you are right on ~~~ and I really don't have an M16.

If I remember correctly, carts are already registered by serial number with your insurance company. There could easily be a village-wide voluntary registration by those serial numbers -- not from the insurance companies. From the owners only. And if there were an affordable lo-jack system that thieves could not disable easily, I'd be interested. However, I do not see a viable solution to those who want a system that allows an individual to identify a cart/owner involved in a hit-and-run situation without the dreaded state involvement.

[The Great Fumar]

Steve is right....
Who needs it,,,,,the govt, is into everything it can think of now , so why should we volunteer information that the govt. can jump on and start a new bureaucracy with office's govt. employees , sick days , pensions , holiday pay , maternity leave, mandatory insurance, When its all done we will be paying 1000 bucks a year for the privilege of owning a golf cart whether we use it or not...........
Careful guys ....Big brother is watching.....it this another recycle boondoggle.................million here and a million there and pretty soon your talking about money............
over regulated fumar

[zcaveman]

Go Fumar