Neighborhood Electric Vehicles

Still opposed to slow moving and unsafe vehicles made of plastic on the highway (and the bike paths :roll🙂.

Still a major advocate of high mpg vehicles, carpooling, bike riding, walking, hybrids, mass transit, and any alternative energy vehicles that actually meet crash test standards and can go the posted speed limit.

And the Scootermobile is still using less than 10 gallons of gas a week.........or 2. :wave:

I have an electric 4 wheel drive car, street legal, insured, that I drive down on the beach and around my neighborhood. I love it...but would never want to travel on 30A with it...

And the Scootermobile is still using less than 10 gallons of gas a week.........or 2. :wave:

Yes that pretty good, but I have two questions. One is how long before Geo wants his vehicle back, and two...how many bloody carrots do you go through?! 😀

I am still recovering from the family in the "Neighborhood Electric Vehicle" that came flying out of a Seagrove side road and almost hit me, which made me swerve and almost hit an oncoming car. They wouldn't have had a chance. Thankfully nobody was on the bikepath.

Oh c'mon- what is this fancy name for a golf cart? Dress it up, give it a license plate- it still is not "safety appropriate" for busy roads.

I am visiting family in KY this week, and my mom lives in a place that is much more golf cart friendly- less traffic, users stay off the main thoroughfares (the town equivalent of 30A), kids aren't careening around everywhere, nobody piles 6 people and 3 coolers in one cart, etc. In other words, I don't grit my teeth, genuflect, and pray when I see one.

Expect to see three times the number on the road by 2014. That's where tax dollars are being directed through incentives to manufacturers and buyers.

Is the vocal majority on this board still vociferously opposed to Neighborhood Electric Vehicle expansion (for the last 2 miles of 30A that are NEV forbidden) on 30A as they were a couple months ago?

Yes. I advocate IEDs programmed to take out golf carts be placed from one end of 30-A to the other.

Yes. I advocate IEDs programmed to take out golf carts be placed from one end of 30-A to the other.

IED's 4 NEV's please! :cool:

Is the vocal majority on this board still vociferously opposed to Neighborhood Electric Vehicle expansion (for the last 2 miles of 30A that are NEV forbidden) on 30A as they were a couple months ago?

I drove along 30-A east from about Cocoon's to Seacrest this morning specifically observing the terrain, and guess what? There is no "Neighborhood". For the most part it was nothing but pine trees, coastal dune lakes, and more pine trees. I love pine trees as much as the next guy, but I sure don't want to study them in detail as I'm driving 25mph behind a golf-cart. This is not a Neighborhood. It's a scenic rural highway.

Expect to see three times the number on the road by 2014. That's where tax dollars are being directed through incentives to manufacturers and buyers.

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Incentives directed toward highway-drivable golf carts? It'll be a challenge to meet safety codes. And owners are going to love paying those insurance premiums. ...




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Last month the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety came out against these vehicles being on busy roads with other traffic:


"News Release | May 20, 2010
Low-speed vehicles and minitrucks shouldn't share busy public roads with regular traffic

ARLINGTON, VA ? More states are allowing a relatively new breed of vehicle on public roads, but crash tests by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety show why the mix of low-speed vehicles (LSVs) or minitrucks and regular traffic is a deadly combination. LSVs are designed for tooling around residential neighborhoods, and minitrucks are for hauling cargo off-road. While these vehicles have a lot of appeal as a way to reduce emissions and cut fuel use, they don't have to meet the basic safety standards that cars and pickups do, and they aren't designed to protect their occupants in crashes."

Link to the whole release: IIHS news release

Douglas, that's not my vehicle. But evidently I *am* the ass in the photo! 😉

I wish someone else would have said that so i could have replied with-

"Hehawlways calls me that!"

RDavies,
After the last multi page thread did you really think anyone would have changed their mind?

It's not a vocal majority against lowering the speedlimit to accomodate golf carts that have no business being on a county road. It's just a majority.

I thought I smelled dead horse.

Personally I like stopping them and then asking if I get the towels from them or call the front desk. The looks are great and the teenage girls want to crawl under them when they realize they are riding on the linen cart.

They're 'neighborhood electric vehicles' now? 'LSV' wasn't good enough? More pages of pleading rhetoric about 2 miles of 45?

No, my opinion hasn't changed. Got behind one day before yesterday and they pulled over to let me pass. Called the sheriff's office, though, as the kids riding on the back seat facing my oncoming vehicle, did not have their seat belts fastened.😀

I thought I smelled dead horse.

Personally I like stopping them and then asking if I get the towels from them or call the front desk. The looks are great and the teenage girls want to crawl under them when they realize they are riding on the linen cart.

:lolabove:

They're 'neighborhood electric vehicles' now? 'LSV' wasn't good enough? More pages of pleading rhetoric about 2 miles of 45?

Since the acronym has changed we need a new thread. :lol:



On a serious note, I am seeing a lot more golf carts on 30A.

No, my opinion hasn't changed. Got behind one day before yesterday and they pulled over to let me pass. Called the sheriff's office, though, as the kids riding on the back seat facing my oncoming vehicle, did not have their seat belts fastened.😀

When was the last time a biker on 30a has pulled over to let a car pass?

:lolabove:



Since the acronym has changed we need a new thread. :lol:



On a serious note, I am seeing a lot more golf carts on 30A.

That's opposte my experience Kurt. The last time I was in Seaside, I snapped a photo on my phone of the modica area, and it was WALL to Wall the worst offending MPG hogs in the world... Armada, Hummer, Armada, Tahoe, Yukon, Suburban, Expedition (poor folks),

The picture, to me, spoke a thousand words. Walton County might make the next edition of The Onion, if they can seriously be seen to be leading a charge against LSV's, and off shore drilling simultaneously, while chomping down fish tacos at Bud & Alleys surrounded by Tahoes and Armadas... what a cool story this is going to be.

When was the last time a biker on 30a has pulled over to let a car pass?

Bikes have a small footprint. I don't need permission to pass them. Golf carts are a whole other story . All the weaknesses of bicycles and Mack trucks with none of the advantages.