Article by Micah Toll
Watch out: New Jersey bill to require all e-bike riders to register, get insurance
The news follows on the heels of other major e-bike crackdowns, including a California plan to require a special driver’s license for e-bike riders and a new practice by Dutch police of stopping e-bike riders and performing road-side speed compliance checks.
Bill S2292 outlining the new e-bike rider requirements is slated for discussion today.
The proposed legislation, which is thought to have significant support in the state legislature, would also apply to electric scooter riders.
The bill aims to require of e-bikes and e-scooters the same type of registration and liability insurance regulations currently applied to motor vehicles such as cars and motorcycles. This is despite electric bicycles and e-scooters repeatedly being classified as consumer products and not motor vehicles at the federal level.
by RefrigeratorRemote96
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You can insure a 50cc moped for 50-100 bucks a year with 500k coverage, I wonder what price an ebike that is even slower would be. 5 bucks a month? isn’t the worst really.
Are they responding to an actual issue of uninsured ebikers getting in accidents or is this more of an eff bikers they shouldn’t get any advantages
I like this.