The taxonomy of traffic participants in Dutch law is the brainchild of an orangutan on cocaine
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"A brommobiel (moped car) is a moped on more than two wheels and is classified under the group of non-motorized vehicles. A moped has an engine and is therefore also a motor carriage."
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Drew DeVaultreplied to Drew DeVault last edited by [email protected]
(I am aware that this taxonomy is not the result of drugged up orangutans, but in fact is the result of people inventing new and increasingly contrived means of transport with the explicit aim of circumventing tax and/or licensing requirements, which are then regulated after the fact by an exasperated road authority)
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The worst offender is brommobiels, and whoever invented those can get fucked
To any reasonable person this is just a small car, but under the law it's a moped, but unlike mopeds it has to follow the traffic rules for cars, but like mopeds it is a motor *carriage* but not a motor *vehicle*, whereas a car is both.
This is all on the exam.
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@drewdevault Unless they are used as a vehicle for people with disabilities, in which case the driver can choose to follow either the rules for cars or mopeds (if memory serves me right).
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@viccie30 this is a separate class of vehicle which dutch law refers to as an "invalid carriage" (yikes)
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@drewdevault You've sucked me into this thread now. What is the technical distinction between a carriage and a vehicle?
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@drewdevault them going on the fietspaden is the worst :(((
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@roadriverrail I don't know!
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@fetch I saw a post on /r/netherlands asking about these for the theory exam, the question was "on which of these roadways can you expect to find a brommobiel" and one user answered "trick question, all of them because they don't give a fuck about road laws"
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@drewdevault It’s classified as non-motorised and as motorised at the same time? o.O
