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> My rule was that a vehicle was an artificially powered object capable of moving itself along with one or more people (not necessarily comfortably! This is just a mass threshold).

So... motorized wheelchairs are vehicles?



Definitely. Just because they break the nominal rule doesn't obligate me to throw them out of the park. I wouldn't stop the ambulance either, but it's definitely breaking the rule.


The test prohibits vehicles, not specifically automobiles, but basically everyone interprets the rule to only apply to automobiles.

Are motorized wheelchairs vehicles?

> a thing used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, truck, or cart

I’d say yes


Yes. But that doesn't make the rule just and doesn't mean it would be enforced.


And this is why we have videos of bicyclists yelling at parapalegics.




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