The Ministry of Transport recommended that training in the safe use of personal mobility aids (SIM) be included in the school curriculum, transmits “Parliamentary newspaper”. The Ministry filed a related objection to the Ministry of National Education. From March 1, electric scooters, gyro scooters, unicycles, etc. officially recognized as a vehicle, included in traffic rules and made a separate article in the Code of Administrative Offenses for violating the rules.
“We sent a request to the Ministry of National Education. We hope that our colleagues, possibly optionally, will include such a course in the school curriculum, ”said Sergey Semenov, head of the Department of State Policy in the Field of Automobile and Urban Passenger Transport of the Ministry of Transport.
At the same time, the State Duma proposed to teach not only children, but also adults how to drive safely on the SIM.
“When discussing changes in traffic rules, we advocated a certain type of training and even the introduction, for example, of a category of rights similar to the M1 for mopeds. Perhaps one day we will come to this, ”said Pavel Fedyaev, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Transport Committee.
It is emphasized that the creation of training courses on the driving SIM is also supported by representatives of kicksharing services.
Former head of the Moscow traffic police Alexander Bykov knowledgeableThat they started testing neural networks in Moscow to look for SIM violators on some major roads.