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Originally Posted by Lily Kerns
. . .I am a Segway user and am not a vehicle--but I have a motor. . .
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This is the way I look at it: in Florida statute
316.003:
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(21) MOTOR VEHICLE.—Any self-propelled vehicle not operated upon rails or guideway, but not including any bicycle, motorized scooter, electric personal assistive mobility device, or moped.
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(75) VEHICLE.—Every device, in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, excepting devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
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EPAMDs are not allowed on highways.
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(83) ELECTRIC PERSONAL ASSISTIVE MOBILITY DEVICE.—Any self-balancing, two-nontandem-wheeled device, designed to transport only one person, with an electric propulsion system with average power of 750 watts (1 horsepower), the maximum speed of which, on a paved level surface when powered solely by such a propulsion system while being ridden by an operator who weighs 170 pounds, is less than 20 miles per hour. Electric personal assistive mobility devices are not vehicles as defined in this section.
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Nota bene the last sentence in the above quote. If EPAMDs are not vehicles, logically, they are ALSO not motor or motorized vehicles. It's simple common semantics.