Legalizing Electric Glyders - A different type of electric scooter
Post date: Jul 28, 2014 9:34:55 PM
Join me in my quest to legalize electric glyders.
LHP Story
Excuse to go outside with kids
Take them to school was a sad affair until we started taking the scooter then it became the best part or our day. People would look at us funny at first. But soon others started to join in...
And others....
Started visiting friends house, then the parks
The Police and the community accepted ..people would beep and wave as we go buy...and electric scooters became part of everyday life.
I spent the last 3 years developing a scooter that would be perfect for this lifestyle. I call it an electric glyder. It may sound crazy but I and others have found having your kids sitting down or standing in front of us is the safest way to cruise around as you both can see what is going on and squeezing them in between your knees when stopping would keep them safe.
Uses
#1. Policing the kids when playing on the street. Looking for cars driving up and warn kids or the cars to slow down. Kids on bikes, or their electric car, skate board, roller blades.
#2. Enjoyable way to spend time just cruising around while we talk sing and explore.
#3. Driving kids to school...
#4. Holidays Holloween, Christmas with music looking at lights, Trips to the store,pick up pizza, pick flowers, hunt squirrels, enjoy the sunset, dry our hair after a bath, sing, cat watching, breakfast, to boat rides, driving range, to the pool, to tennis, the beach,
3 years engineering a light high performance electric scooter that people will accept. Now it's time for us to request that they be legal. Current laws separate electric bicycles and require pedals to be legal. We need to get rid of the pedals and push for change in these laws.
Electric Glyder or similar electric style scooter.
Quiet - safety
Low seat
Max speed limits for children 12 mph
Max speed limit for adults 20 mph
Children up to 13 years old require adult with them
Helmets required up to 13 years old
Lots of lights
Areas of danger
Parking lots
Hidden driveways
Options
Location devices
Parents can monitor
Regional switches - disables by phone or via distance from home
Alarms
Sidewalk button -
Speed/torque controls
Safe why -
Low center of gravity and low seat for balance.
Easy to get on and off
Carrying kids - show bike baby seat get on and off, slow speed,
Squeeze between knees if the need to stop
Jump of / stand up use arms to
Walk/shuffle at slow speeds
Accurate throttle - low speed balance
Easier to get across and intersection - instead of walking a bike - shuffle
Park on their side - wont fall over, or take off
Thumb throttle instead of twist grip
Training
Slow speed course
Stopping
Stay behind adult entering intersections
Pedestrians and crowded environments
Why is this the case?
No clear definition of the different types of electric scooters.
There has not been a viable option until now
Safe
Good Range
Quiet
Design that is cool
Unfamiliar with technology
Old vs new
Electric range
Unfamiliar with usefulness
Carry things on base ect.
No one is fighting for their acceptance.
Join our petition to get Glyder electric scooters accepted like electric bikes