Segway legalities

OssianSmyth

Could you legally drive a Segway on the street? Would that require insurance, tax, registration - given that it can do 20km/h?

Could you legally drive a Segway on the footpath?

Is it legal to drive a segway down a pedestrian street?

godtabh

Ask the guards. They've wasted about €20k on a couple so they should know

syklops

godtabh wrote: »

Ask the guards. They've wasted about €20k on a couple so they should know

They were presented to the gardai. Cost to the tax payer 0 euros.

mitosis

All those apply as they do to motorised bicycles. No tax, insurance etc. No usage in pedestrian areas.Gardai are exempt in the course of their duties.

coylemj

There's a thread over on Motors about the same topic. As far as I'm concerned they are mechanically propelled vehicles and so require driving licence, insurance and registration plates though of course a Garda on duty driving an official vehicle is not required to have a driving licence or insurance.

The Gardai seem to have driven (pun intended) those little motorized scooters off the public roads and footpaths, I can't see how the Segway is any different as far as the law is concerned because the RTA makes no distinction between internal combustion and electricity as a means of propulsion when defining what is and is not an MPV.

coylemj

mitosis wrote: »

All those apply as they do to motorised bicycles. No tax, insurance etc. No usage in pedestrian areas.Gardai are exempt in the course of their duties.

They are not exempt from the requirement that a mechanically propelled vehicle driven in a public place must have registration plates.

Gyalist

godtabh wrote: »

Ask the guards. They've wasted about €20k on a couple so they should know

The Segways were donated by the Dublin City Centre Business Association.

chasm

OssianSmyth wrote: »

Could you legally drive a Segway on the street? Would that require insurance, tax, registration - given that it can do 20km/h?

Could you legally drive a Segway on the footpath?

Is it legal to drive a segway down a pedestrian street?

There is a tour group in Dublin that runs their tours using segways, don't recall the name but they were down by the jeannie johnson last year when i took my nephews on the JJ.

The only info i could find on legislation was this, from a few years ago:
http://www.segway.ie/?id=46

Have to say it was a good guess on my part when my nephew wanted to go on one - i told him i thought he might need to be at least 16 years old!

Grolschevik

I've seen Airport Police using them inside the terminal building (arrivals, T1 specifically).

Victor

Grolschevik wrote: »

I've seen Airport Police using them inside the terminal building (arrivals, T1 specifically).

Restrictions would only apply in a public place, which the inside of a building wouldn't be. It would seem to be illegal for the airport police to use them on the roads (including footpaths) around the airport.

At the moment, the only legal use would appear to be by (a) the Garda, anywhere (b) other people, provided it is private property, not open to the public.

Cedrus

I would have thought that these would be in the same class as electric mobility scooters.

M three

Gyalist wrote: »

The Segways were donated by the Dublin City Centre Business Association.

They've obviously watched that mall cop movie one too many times.
Shouldnt be too long before a guard flattens an innocent shopper on grafton st with it

fasttalkerchat

Same as a bike I'd imaging, probably need a helmet.