When properly equipped for the highway, a golf cart officially becomes a "low speed vehicle," not a golf cart. The golf cart idea is interesting. Many developers "gave away" a golf cart with the homes sold, even though they cannot legally be driven on the roads. One major problem is with kids driving them, and not knowing the rules of the road. I like the idea that if more people drove electric low speed vehicles, we would have more parking, and less carbon pollution. However, I'd almost bet money that the people who are driving the golf carts are doing so over short distances, rather than walking, so in all likelihood, they aren't really reducing pollution or increasing the number of available parking places. I doubt that most of those people would drive their Suburbans those short distances. If they would walk or ride their bicycle, they would be getting exercise, decreasing their chance for heart failure, and in turn, decrease the cost of our health insurance premiums.
