The first question is a question that we've been receiving a lot lately about electric scooters or electric bikes.
Parents are buying electric scooters and bikes for their young children, allowing them to have an electric scooter.
Is that okay that little children are operating such things? Unfortunately, quite a few times the children have hurt someone.
Are the parents liable? Is it okay to ride an electric scooter on the sidewalk? Over here in New York, this is illegal.
Quite a few incidents which have come to our attention of people that were seriously hurt, injured via electric scooters.
So the concept of these e-bikes, e-scooters and their safety is what we want to discuss today.
So of course, it's an obligation of parent to make sure that these electric scooters are not going to create a unreasonable risk.
Children are sometimes not sufficiently mature, not responsible or capable of operating such a vehicle safely, and therefore would be not proper for such children to use it.
Different states have different laws, and it's not our place to make an assessment of what the right age exactly for a child to be able to operate such a thing.
Now, not every time a child does something does it make the parent automatically liable.
If the parents are negligent, sometimes there could be grounds that the parents would be responsible.
Was it foreseeable that it will be harm? And if there was harm or injury, damage, then this is something that the Yonim would have to look at.
Quite a few states are adopting laws that you need to get a license and register, and this would make a lot of sense.
To ride an electric scooter on the sidewalk is against the law over here in New York.
Now, the sources for this topic, and talking about that, I will mention that in a lot of the questions that we discuss, you can see the sources on the Asterab website.
A minor who causes damage is not chayiv, is not obligated to pay for the damage.
Even when he gets older, there's a chumra, a yirushamayim, a God-fearing person.
The first question is a question that we've been receiving a lot lately about electric scooters or electric bikes.
Parents are buying electric scooters and bikes for their young children, allowing them to have an electric scooter.
Is that okay that little children are operating such things? Unfortunately, quite a few times the children have hurt someone.
Are the parents liable? Is it okay to ride an electric scooter on the sidewalk? Over here in New York, this is illegal.
Quite a few incidents which have come to our attention of people that were seriously hurt, injured via electric scooters.
So the concept of these e-bikes, e-scooters and their safety is what we want to discuss today.
So of course, it's an obligation of parent to make sure that these electric scooters are not going to create a unreasonable risk.
Children are sometimes not sufficiently mature, not responsible or capable of operating such a vehicle safely, and therefore would be not proper for such children to use it.
Different states have different laws, and it's not our place to make an assessment of what the right age exactly for a child to be able to operate such a thing.
Now, not every time a child does something does it make the parent automatically liable.
If the parents are negligent, sometimes there could be grounds that the parents would be responsible.
Was it foreseeable that it will be harm? And if there was harm or injury, damage, then this is something that the Yonim would have to look at.
Quite a few states are adopting laws that you need to get a license and register, and this would make a lot of sense.
To ride an electric scooter on the sidewalk is against the law over here in New York.
Now, the sources for this topic, and talking about that, I will mention that in a lot of the questions that we discuss, you can see the sources on the Asterab website.
A minor who causes damage is not chayiv, is not obligated to pay for the damage.
Even when he gets older, there's a chumra, a yirushamayim, a God-fearing person.
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