Back Vehicle de mobilitat personal Catalan Elektrokleinstfahrzeug German Vehículo de movilidad personal Spanish Mugikortasun pertsonaleko ibilgailu Basque وسیله نقلیه فردی Persian Engin de déplacement personnel French パーソナルモビリティ Japanese 퍼스널 모빌리티 Korean Voortbewegingstoestel Dutch Urządzenie transportu osobistego Polish
A personal transporter (also powered transporter,[1] electric rideable, personal light electric vehicle, personal mobility device, etc.) is any of a class of compact, mostly recent (21st century), motorised micromobility vehicle for transporting an individual at speeds that do not normally exceed 25 km/h (16 mph). They include electric skateboards, kick scooters, self-balancing unicycles and Segways, as well as gasoline-fueled motorised scooters or skateboards, typically using two-stroke engines of less than 49 cc (3.0 cu in) displacement.[2][3] Many newer versions use recent advances in vehicle battery and motor-control technologies. They are growing in popularity, and legislators are in the process of determining how these devices should be classified, regulated and accommodated during a period of rapid innovation.
Generally excluded from this legal category are electric bicycles (that are considered to be a type of bicycle); electric motorbikes and scooters (that are treated as a type of motorcycle or moped); and powered mobility aids with 3 or 4 wheels on which the rider sits (which fall within regulations covering powered mobility scooters).[4]
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