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  • 2010-01-05 - DfT release a public consultation for Electric Personal Vehicles http://www.dft.gov.uk. See our consultation page for a summary.

  • 2009-06-16 - Freedom of Information release covering all correspondence sent to the Department for Transport (including `Minister's Cases,' `Treat Officials,' invitations and correspondence sent by organisations and representatives from organisations), between the dates of 01 January 2005 to 30 September 2008, which concern or relate to Segway, Segway Personal Transporters or the Department's policy on Segway Personal Transporters - http://www.dft.gov.uk. See the highlights on our letters page.

    14 May 2009 : Column GC481

    Lord Harris of Haringey: I have a sense that we have reached a stage at which personal transporters have come of age. This was brought home to me in 10 minutes of the BBC’s “Children in Need” appeal this year. There, appearing to watch a performance of “The Office: The Opera”, was Ricky Gervais, coming in on a personal transporter. You could see, with the facility, grace and elegance with which he did this, that it was now part of the national psyche.

  • 2009-01-14 - Significant discussion in the House of Commons - http://www.publications.parliament.uk - starts two-thirds down the page and is continued here.

    14 Jan 2009 : Column 315

    Lembit Öpik: To paraphrase Shakespeare, I come to legalise Segways, not to praise them. The evil that machines do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their cogs, and so it could be with the self-balancing personal transporter. My goal today is to change that. I seek agreement to a pathway to determine how this creative, convenient and eco-friendly device may be formally embraced by the UK.

  • 2008-05-19 - Discussion in the House of Lords - http://www.publications.parliament.uk - starts towards the end of the page and continues here.

    19 May 2008 : Column 1247

    Lord Redesdale: My Lords, I tried one of these machines 20 minutes ago; it is in the car park if the Minister wishes to wander out there. It took me a few minutes to learn how to use it and I was very impressed with it. The vehicle’s safety mechanism was particularly good and was demonstrated by the fact that I drove straight at the noble Earl, Lord Attlee, with his consent, and failed to do him any damage at all—unfortunately! I am sure that if the Minister would like to wander down to the car park, he could try it out on the pavement and, as it is on private land, he could do so legally.

  • 2007-11-29 - Early Day Motion: Personal Transporters -http://edmi.parliament.uk
  • 2007-08-24 - Segway Around the World Fact Sheet - http://www.segway.com:

    • "The European Commission has exempted the Segway PT from its vehicle legislation releasing it from regulation as a road vehicle."

  • 2007-07-20 - California EPAMD (Segway) Law - Good example - http://www.leginfo.ca.gov
  • 2006-08-29 - Department for Transport statement - http://www.dft.gov.uk
  • 2006-01-10 - Discussion in the House of Lords - http://www.publications.parliament.uk:

    • 10 Jan 2006 : Column 123
     
    Lord Berkeley: My Lords, I hope at least that a message could be given to the police not to harass people unduly, if they are operating safely; otherwise, they do not have any way forward. If they go on the road, they will be done for not having insurance, tax, two lights in the front and two lights in the back; if they go on a cycle way, they will be caught by police for driving in a car; if they go on a footpath—well, a policeman on foot probably cannot chase them. But I hear what the Minister says, and I am sure that either here or in another place we shall revert to this subject many times in future years. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. "

  • 2005-10-26 - Discussion in the House of Lords - http://www.publications.parliament.uk - starts half way down the page and continues here and here.

    26 Oct 2005 : Column 1273 / 1274

    The Earl of Liverpool: ...In May 2003, Luciano Caveri, then chairman of the European Parliament committee on regional transport and tourism, said:

    "I have to admit that the Segway has positively impressed us for its maneuverability, its safety features and for the implications that a broad use could have on the environmental and traffic conditions of many of our cities. For this reason—on behalf of my colleagues of the Transport Committee—I would like to invite formally the responsible Member States bodies to authorize explicitly and as soon as possible the use of the Segway Human Transporter on European pavements".

  • 2005-05-06 - LTN 2/04 - Adjacent and Shared Use Facilities for Pedestrians and Cyclists - http://www.dft.gov.uk (Segways, skateboards, unpowered scooters, not allowed on pavements)

  • No date - Cycling and the law - A bicycle is a recognised in law as a "carriage", as a consequence of the Taylor v Goodwin judgment in 1879 - no such judgement for Segways - http://www.bikeforall.net

  • 1835-08-31 - Highway Act 1835 - See section 72 for relevant details - http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk

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