We are in the beginning of the E-Scooter period (where it's now legal in Germany, but loaded with regulation and governmental authority).
I noted this morning via RBB (the Berlin public TV network), that the German cops in Berlin are now staging 'audits' on the streets of the city. In one morning, they stopped 21 E-Scooter operators, and 11 were in some form of illegal status. They even noted that a couple were using the E-Scooters but were under the age of fourteen years old.
If you read through the story though....most were noted as tourists (non-Berliners).
The Bundestag spent a fair amount of time arguing over a number of rules and regulations, and it basically laid the path to the general rule of Germany ('we need to manage and over-regulate this'). My guess is that the cops in Berlin and most all urbanized regions....will be spending a fair number of man-hours each week....trying to establish authority while the E-Scooter crowd grows in numbers.
Over the past year, while visiting around in the Netherlands, Spain, and Czech.....I have to admit that this E-Scooter trend is growing at a fantastic rate. Just in Barcelona alone....I'd take a guess that more than 20,000 E-Scooters are active every single day.
Just my humble feeling over this....but by spring of 2020, I expect at least one German city to totally outlaw the E-Scooters because no one will conform to the regulations.
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