In Russia, they want all electric scooters to be before our eyes. What do people think about this and some are expressing concern

The State Duma is currently finalizing a bill that will require owners of electric scooters to install registration numbers and radio beacons for real-time identification.

According to officials, this will help to record violations by scooter riders automatically and, if necessary, impose a fine on the owner of the electric scooter, for example, if he leaves the scene of an accident.

The rules will be the same for everyone: both kicksharing companies and private owners of electric scooters. It is not yet known how exactly this system will work, how the data will be collected, but our readers already have many questions.

Briefly

• How to ride a Yehan scooter safely
  Will the law be respected?
  How necessary are such strict measures?
  How can the law be improved?
  A similar bill was not adopted
  Wait for further news

How to ride a Yehan scooter safely

There was a big discussion on this topic on the iPhones.ru Telegram channel. Many people don’t want to be tracked by the state system.

This practice is currently only used on airplanes and helicopters. Owners of regular cars and motorcycles are not required to install radio tags.

Naturally, everyone is concerned about the issue of confidentiality, which remains open for now. Of course, it is unlikely that anyone will monitor your movements when determining the time, but, in theory, it will be resolved and provided if necessary. For example, in the event of an accident.

In 2023, there were 3,100 accidents involving STS, which is 3.3 times more than in 2022. As a result of STS, 3,177 people were injured and 43 died. Very often, scooters leave the scene of accidents and are not punished.

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Will the law be respected?

Artem Sheikin, one of the authors of the bill

Another part of readers rightly wonders how this law will be observed.

In Russia, there are at least 330 thousand scooters, not counting private owners. And if kick-sharing services can be forced to comply with the requirements of the law (there are no problems with this), then what should ordinary people do remains a mystery.

The Ministry of Transport has created a SIM register “with the issuance of a registration number, registration mark and registration record,” but it is unclear by what criteria and which electric aircraft will be included there.

Registration of a SIM card will be accompanied by the assignment of a registration number to the SIM card, along with which a radio frequency identification tag will be issued.

Artem Sheikin, member of the Federation Council Committee on State Building and Constitutional Legislation

It is possible that some details will be made public when the bill is finalized for the second reading. But even without this, one can be sure that not all people will register electric scooters. And what punishment will be provided for this is also not yet clear.

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How necessary are such strict measures?

An example of how city cameras hide a scooter accident

Geolocation tracking in determining time is a very controversial solution. Of course, in the case of electric scooters, there are many people who support it, because this type of transport is currently practically not developed.

But in other way, Most electric scooter rides are uneventfulIn 2023, there were 211 million trips, and this is an approximate estimate excluding trips by people on personal electric scooters.

A study on the TrueSharing website notes that “most accidents occurred at intersections due to poor infrastructure for bicycles and SMIs.”

According to Whoosh, more than 99.9% of all scooter rides on the service in 2023 were without incident.

At the same time, according to research by the SuperJob service, 41% of Muscovites believe that scooters should be banned throughout the capital26% of respondents spoke out against this decision.

The largest number of people against riding electric scooters in the city center is in Rostov-on-Don (32%), Perm (28%), Samara and Ufa (24% each). A complete ban on electric scooters is most often advocated in Novosibirsk (39%), Rostov-on-Don (38%) and Nizhny Novgorod (35%).

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How can the law be improved?

At the moment, there are no details about how technically it is necessary to work on the registration of electric scooters. How this procedure will take place, how much it will cost (if it is paid), what the radio tag is – all this is currently unknown.

If legislators do decide to pass this law, it should be as transparent as possible, especially in terms of location identification.

This law mostly affects private owners of electric scooters.. Kicksharing services can already travel around the world during a trip. They have already created numbers.

Therefore, it is necessary to understand to what extent it is necessary to extend these measures to ordinary people, many of whom are clearly unhappy with them and drive carefully.

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A similar bill was not adopted

Moscow already has scooters with state registration plates

At the end of 2023, a similar bill was discussed in the State Duma by a group of deputies, including Sergei Mironov.

This bill obliges SIM card owners to register them on the State Services website and install numbers.

After registration, the SIM is assigned a state registration number, the owner of the SIM is obliged to register the SIM state registration plate that meets the decree standards. If the design of the SIM does not allow this, then the operation of such a SIM on public roads, in pedestrian areas will not be destroyed.

It is stated in the explanatory note to the bill

At the same time, the obligation to register an electric scooter also extended to everyone.

At the end of January, all documents for the first reading were ready, but since February the bill has been constantly postponed. Most likely, it will not be adopted.

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Wait for further news

There is not enough information to draw any precise conclusions. The bill is currently being revised and it is not yet known when it will be ready.

If the deputies want it to be adopted at the spring session of the State Duma, then they need to hurry, because it ends on August 5.

And if they do not manage to finalize and adopt the law by this date, it will be postponed until the autumn session, which will last from September 3 to December 29.