Would you be in favour of converting our roads(highways) to support a 'low-speed vehicle / electric car' lane?

Question

I'm done with high gas prices and would like to purchase an electric car. Even though Canada produces low-speed vehicles, the government says they are not safe for our roads and therefore even though they are made here in Canada, I cannot purchase one. Perhaps our roads should be converted to support these vehicles; encouraging Canadians to go green. I think Canadians want these cars. Would you be in favour of converting our highway lanes / streets / roadways to support the low-speed electric cars?

Answer 1

Maybe they can fit in the bike lane.

Of course, I don't see what the concern is for a low-speed vehicle.  It's not like regular vehicles go at high speeds during rush hour.

Answer 2

Absolutely not.  Let them use the side walks.

Also, if you are going to run a bike on the road?  it should be required to have tags, insurance and a bike license.

Answer 3

No I am not in favour of converting highways to support a low speed vehicle.

If you want electric cars then build electric cars that can drive at current highway speeds.

If you want to go slow then buy a bicycle.

Answer 4

god no...are you driving across canida at 30 mph...lol

Answer 5

Instead of this I'd suggest being patient for another year or so until electric cars and hybrids are more widely available and affordable. Tesla Motors is coming out with new models this year, the Compressed Air Car may turn out to be something other than a hoax, even the Genepax car that uses water for fuel might turn out to be genuine (but not likely). If you can't go highway speeds then saving a little fuel is not your main problem. Slower than average drivers cause more fatal car accidents than faster drivers and it's easy to see how the resulting bottlenecks could cause multiple accidents from impatient or less observant drivers.

I'm tired of high gas prices, all of us are, but right now there isn't an ideal way to get around them. Within a year or two there will but not yet. Until then just drive less, walk or bike more or use mass transit if available, or brace yourself for ever higher gas prices over the next year or so. If certain countries would stop demanding other countries increase oil production while they're unwilling to do so themselves, that would be a big help. But that may not happen.

Answer 6

are you daft? there is no lane discipline in north america. there are too many people who will drive 50mph in the left lane despite everyone around them driving at 65. these left lane blockers dont care that the law states slower traffic keep right. imagine bearing down on someone in the left lane in an electric car going 40mph, and you are doing 65-70mph, in heavy traffic. sorry it wont work. too many people will be killed in auto collisions. in germany where they have a high speed lane on the autobahn, they have the proper lane discipline, and it is enforced by the police. you drive in the left lane, and if you dont move over for someone coming up behind you, you will get pulled over and ticketed.

if you want to drive an electric car, that is your choice, but stay off the freeways unless you can at least go the minimum speed, usually 45mph in most areas.

Answer 7

Biofuel cars need only biofuels.

Compressed air cars and electric scooters.. are great city vehicles.

A lot of families use the second car for the city...

Answer 8

I was so surprised when I heard Canada doesn't allow EVs on their road.  It makes absolutely no sense.  We have them in the US, and they're perfectly safe!

There will soon be plenty of high speed EVs to choose from (see link below).  However, I think it's totally unnecessary to make an EV-only lane.  Canada just needs to change its laws to allow EVs on the road, because there's no reason not to.

Answer 9

I think taking a lane away from already congested traffic is a terrible idea, especially to dedicate that to cars that will go even slower. There are enough hybrid options available now and in the near future that can actually keep up with traffic, that they don't need to create more backups for the vast majority to suit the desires of the minority.