<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>quietbritishjim</author><text>I find that article odd: it implicitly assumes that it&amp;#x27;s ridiculous to ban electric scooters on pavements that are intended for pedestrians, but the ban seems like a pretty good idea to me.  Why does it matter how old the law is? Or how funny-sounding it is?&lt;p&gt;It then only briefly touches on why they&amp;#x27;re not allowed on the roads, saying that lights and breaks are required as if that&amp;#x27;s also ridiculous. Actually that also sounds very reasonable to me! Is that really such an arduous requirement?&lt;p&gt;I could understand if someone disagreed with my opinion. But the article&amp;#x27;s tone is that my opinion isn&amp;#x27;t even valid. Now that &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; ridiculous.</text><parent_chain><item><author>neverminder</author><text>In the mean time electric scooters are illegal in UK because of some 200 year old law that talks about pigs and donkeys (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;uk.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;electric-scooters-illegal-1835-highways-act-2018-8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;uk.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;electric-scooters-illegal-1835...&lt;/a&gt;). Even so I see an increasing number of people using them, because apparently cops just turn a blind eye, which does make sense, unlike this law.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scooters are taking cars off the road, a survey says</title><url>https://ggwash.org/view/69621/scooters-are-taking-cars-off-the-road-a-survey-says</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arthurfm</author><text>The law regarding &amp;gt; 250w e-bikes is ridiculous too and badly needs updating.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ebiketips.road.cc&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;advice&amp;#x2F;advice&amp;#x2F;buying-and-riding-an-s-pedelec-in-the-uk-1637&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ebiketips.road.cc&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;advice&amp;#x2F;advice&amp;#x2F;buying-and-r...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>neverminder</author><text>In the mean time electric scooters are illegal in UK because of some 200 year old law that talks about pigs and donkeys (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;uk.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;electric-scooters-illegal-1835-highways-act-2018-8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;uk.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;electric-scooters-illegal-1835...&lt;/a&gt;). Even so I see an increasing number of people using them, because apparently cops just turn a blind eye, which does make sense, unlike this law.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scooters are taking cars off the road, a survey says</title><url>https://ggwash.org/view/69621/scooters-are-taking-cars-off-the-road-a-survey-says</url></story>