Light Electric Vehicle Courtesy and Rules of the Road

- Do not travel on main, busy thoroughfares, unless they have bike lanes. You will be quickly pulled over and cited by local law enforcement for violating this rule.

- The HCF-305 light electric vehicle is expected to stop at all stoplights and stop signs, and to use turn signals in advance of all turns.

- Keep to quiet backroads and neighborhood streets whenever possible, briefly crossing main thoroughfares only at stoplight and stopsign intersections.

- It is ok to park your HCF-305, in certain situations, on some wide, and open, sidewalks, but always dismount and push your HCF-305, onto the sidewalk and into an appropriate parking place, using the utmost courtesy and consideration to pedestrians.

- In crowded parking lots, it's usually better to park your HCF-305 on the sidewalk, if appropriate, since occupying a full-size auto parking space has proven quite irritating to motorists who have desperately circled through the parking lot to an "open" space they've spotted, only to find the entire space taken by a tiny, odd, HCF-305 vehicle.

- It's not yet known if it's appropriate to park your HCF-305 in spaces reserved for motorcycles, in most towns. Stay posted.

- If you plan to install the newer, brighter LED headlight(s) on your vehicle, be sure to carefully adjust the beam(s) to fully illuminate the road ahead, and then carefully adjust the headlight(s) to angle slightly down. This will provide better illumination of the critical, immediate road surface ahead of the vehicle, but also position the light so as not to blind oncoming motorists. LED lights, while adequately bright, with low current drain, can be quite painful to view straight-on (try it for yourself) and a slight downward angle will serve much better for the unique 12-14mph nighttime driving situations.

- Always throttle back when cruising through busy parking lots and shopping areas with heavy foot traffic. The HCF-305, at full cruising speed, is inappropriate in these situations and scares pedestrians.

- Drinking and driving -even "buzzed" driving, is illegal in some states, on the HCF-305. Even sipping on a beer while doing maintenance and tinkering on an HCF-305, while parked in your own driveway, is technically illegal in many states, as it is still viewed as "... being in full control of a motor vehicle while intoxicated...". Most of you have already noticed that driving the HCF-305 requires just as much concentration as driving a full size motor vehicle anyway.

- High performance electric mobility scooters are a relatively new mode of transportation and as such, from a legislative point of view, they remain largely undefined. So far, in many municipalities, law enforcement is taking a watchful waiting attitude towards the HCF-305 class of light electric vehicles. For now, no registration, no license, and no insurance is required, as long as the vehicle is driven by an adult who already has a motor vehicle drivers license. But that may change. And if so, it would be because of dangerous and irresponsible acts on the part of light electric vehicle operators.