I can appreciate peoples opinions and thank them for sharing them. I would like to say something and it will be pretty lengthy so please excuse that if you will. Excuse the mistakes too.
That said, I'd make it clear I have No liking for drunks on the roads or impaired drivers. I don't condone them being on the roads for any reasons. In fact one of my best friends was killed by a drunk. He was riding a motorcycle and was hit by a drunk in a car, he was killed instantly. Another friend lost his life in a slightly different situation, he was riding his bike and a woman pulled out in front of him and killed him instantly. She was on her cell phone at the time. Up on 18 several years ago another friend was injured seriously when a car pulled out in front of him and that put him in the hospital for months. That person driving that car was on the Cell phone. By the way neither person lost their license and continued to drive around like Nothing happened. Funny how people can kill somebody else because they're on the phone and get by with it. They didn't even get their license revoked...
Tractors aren't on the highway everyday that's for sure and a lot of mopeds are 2 Cycle and that's for sure. However, a lot are 4 stroke. Manufactures are moving more and more into that direction. It has nothing to do with these so call pushes. Even Weed Eaters are going 4 stroke and many other devices. That's being done because of economics and environment. Getting back to the farmer he's the man on the tractor he's is going to work so that makes it Okay. What about the dude on the moped going to work? Yep you will be more inconvenienced by the dude on the moped who might possibly have changed his life entirely and hasn't broken any more laws and is trying very hard to contribute just like said Farmer on the tractor. Maybe that's not always the case but for a lot of people it maybe. How do you know one way or another?
See the real problem here is people are INCONVENIENCED they are greedy and selfish so that's the real problem. Let's be honest, that the real problem in the nutshell.
This push to get mopeds off the highway because they're slower might have originated because of complaints but from what I've read it's now more about REVENUE than anything else. Putting insurance on some of these contraptions will generate revenue for insurance companies. And we all know How much insurance companies love making money. The state will make money, they'll get it in several ways such as inspections, tags and gas tax and so forth. We all know how much the state loves to make money off the public too, don't we?
While it might take a few off the road people will still have to contend with them once they get tagged so while it might change some it will not remove them all from the highways. Will people Still threaten them then? What will you do then?
Frankly, I don't believe for a second someone with a bug up their *** would take the time to talk to Every person they see on a moped/scooter to see if they've lost their drivers license. I'd say Bull **** on that right fast. So basically most of you go on the assumptions you know which is a bad thing which has already been pointed out. I don't by that everyone riding a Moped doesn't care they're causing someone a problem by going slow either. I see by far to many of them trying their ****ed best to get out of the way. I'd ask, exactly What is the person supposed to do in that situation? They can't always pull over just because of where they are, they can't just make a way for you to pass because of on coming traffic. Wait I have the answer they're supposed to just stay out of your way because you're in a hurry because you laid on your *** till the last minute and now you're running late for work or you've worked all day and want to go home. Maybe the dude on the moped wants to go home too or like you he laid on his *** and now he's running late and doing his ****ed best to get to work.
Like I said, if you want the mopeds off the roads don't threaten people call or write your elected officials and do it the legal way else you've not a leg to stand on. You'd be just like the dude who lost his license because he's a drunk and broke the law. You don't have the excuse of being a freaking drunk just the excuse you are being inconvenienced.
Okay this will piss some of you off but this is how it is. Some of you have threatened to bump people riding mopeds off the road. Some said you'd have done this or that had you been given the chance.
By your own admissions you're Advocating Breaking the law in some form to insure you get your way.With your own admission this makes you not a he'llva lot better than the freaking drunk on the moped!
You advocate breaking the law but for whatever reasons you haven't acted on your threats just yet.
Let's say you act out your threats at some point now How are You any different than the dude on the moped you claim broke the law and lost his license which gave you the right to knock him off the road or throw something on them? You assaulted someone because they inconvenienced you for a few minutes or they did something you thought to be stupid. Does that excuse the fact you broke the law? What if you're sentenced to jail time? Suppose we the public should give you a 2nd chance? You've certainly inconvenienced the public and cost them several million dollars during your jail time. Should we knock you off the road or throw something on you?
2 wrongs doesn't make a right. Get the point?
Everyone agrees that mopeds need to be better regulated and that's a given. Everyone agrees they should at least be able to keep up with traffic and if they can't they should be taken off major highways. We've all agreed with that at some point or another.
Where we disagree and strongly that everyone that rides a Moped or scooter has lost their license. Some haven't but you've grouped them all together so you see No differences where differences are. A lot of people ride scooters because they like it and they are Green machines they're 4 stroke and they'll absolutely get it down the roads. Some get by far better gas mileage than being said here. Some are perfect for the cities and they get around perfectly in crowed streets. I've seen several on 77 cruising 80 mph and that was no issue for them. If you've ridden any length of time you'll see Scooters on the parkway. A lot of older riders have switched from motorcycles to scooters because they have health issues and can no longer saddle a motorcycle. When you get your blinders off you might see a few!
All this being said, let's agree to disagree on some of this. My only point is Not everyone who rides a Scooter or Moped is a bad person they've done not a single thing wrong and they have drivers licenses just like most people.
When you start knocking them off the road or throwing things on them make sure you get the ones that fits your criteria.
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