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Voiture sans permis - no licence required
« on: January 04, 2016, 04:11:58 PM »
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Re: Voiture sans permis - no licence required
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2016, 04:17:49 PM »
Cute, but about as much mileage as the Sinclair C5.
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Re: Voiture sans permis - no licence required
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2016, 08:02:12 AM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35210572

Any mileage for the UK?

Did you manage to read that article and honestly come away thinking it was a good idea?
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Re: Voiture sans permis - no licence required
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2016, 03:42:54 PM »
Did you manage to read that article and honestly come away thinking it was a good idea?
That's why I wondered what others would think - not sugesting that I regrd it as workable.  Mind you, we seem to have a number of similar things here already.  Motorised wheelchairs and mini-mokes spring to mind!!
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Re: Voiture sans permis - no licence required
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2016, 07:04:34 PM »
That's why I wondered what others would think - not sugesting that I regrd it as workable.  Mind you, we seem to have a number of similar things here already.

I think it's a completely daft idea.

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Motorised wheelchairs and mini-mokes spring to mind!!

Mini-Moles are proper cars aren't they? It's basically a Mini. Motorised wheelchairs are often a bit of a nuisance but they are an order of magnitude less car-like than a VSP.
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Re: Voiture sans permis - no licence required
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2016, 07:54:32 PM »
Mini-Moles are proper cars aren't they? It's basically a Mini. Motorised wheelchairs are often a bit of a nuisance but they are an order of magnitude less car-like than a VSP.
I though that mini-mokes were 'baby' motorbikes.  The point about motorised wheelchairs is that they aren't registered as far as I'm aware.

Slight tangent here: one of my godfathers, and our family doctor, had a really old-fashioned disabled vehicle that had belonged to his mother (this was in the 1960/70s).  It was an elongated 3-wheeler and the driver was meant to pedal it whilst reclining on the seat, with their legs out in front of their body.  I can remember driving it from his house/surgery to ours - a distance of about half-a-mile - via two of Oxford's busiest roads when I was about 14.  'Hairy' doesn't do the trip justice.  Cars were racing past me, and trying to steer it into the middle of the road to turn right was not easy!!
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