State Duma Deputy Vladislav Davankov, in his letter, appealed to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, with the idea of creating an electric scooter police force in major cities of the country.
According to the representative of the authorities, patrols to control users on personal mobility devices (PMD) could track such violations of traffic rules (SDA) and behavior in the urban environment as: speeding, drunk driving, ignoring traffic lights, and others. Raids are proposed to be carried out in the most popular places in large cities.
The main task of such a unit would be to patrol pedestrian and public areas to monitor compliance with traffic rules by drivers of electric bicycles and electric scooters.
This proposal is another attempt to bring unscrupulous PMD drivers to justice, who, with the opening of the rental season, become a problem for residents of large cities.
Constant violation of traffic rules often leads to traffic accidents and injuries not only to PMD users, but also to passers-by who happen to be nearby.
This season, kick-sharing services equipped their electric scooters with large numbers for identification. The Ministry of Transport is developing a system for tracking electric scooter drivers using video recording cameras. The services themselves have introduced fines for violations while driving and even blocked the accounts of minors in their applications.
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