Come to GOSTs – Newspaper Kommersant No. 232 (7433) dated 12/14/2022
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Rosstandart approved the standard for certification of electric scooters, unicycles and other electric means of individual mobility (ESIM) imported and produced in the Russian Federation. GOST, which will come into force on February 1, is still voluntary: manufacturers wishing to certify their devices under the new rules must limit the maximum speed of models to 25 km / h, introduce the function of automatically slowing down devices in parks and provide shock loads during crash tests. Kicksharing services have already modernized the existing scooter fleet in this way. Manufacturers of powerful models for personal use are ready to comply with the new rules after GOST becomes mandatory.
Rosstandart approved GOST-R 70514-2022 “Electric means of individual mobility. Technical requirements and test methods”, which will come into force on February 1, 2023. “The new standard will serve as an effective tool for improving the safety and comfort of both vehicle drivers and the people around them,” Anton Shalaev, head of Rosstandart, said in this regard.
The number of electric scooters and other SIMs (personal and shared) has increased many times over the past few years. As a result, the accident rate associated with these vehicles is increasing. In this regard, the Ministry of Transport has prepared amendments to the traffic rules that regulate the rules for the movement of SIMs (including speed limits, weight limits, etc.), which will come into force on March 1, 2023. FSUE NAMI, the deptrans of Moscow, together with kicksharing services, were simultaneously developing GOST for certification and testing of SIM cards imported and manufactured in the Russian Federation.
The standards, we recall, are voluntary regulations for use, unless otherwise provided for in the law or other regulatory act (for example, a number of standards in the field of traffic safety are included in the list of mandatory by a separate order of the government of the Russian Federation). The approved GOST for SIM is voluntary.
Companies that want to certify their models according to the approved standard will have to limit the speed of the device to 25 km / h, install a location module, fix the automatic deceleration function in parks and squares.
The document also defines test methods, requirements for marking, packaging, battery charging, impact strength (similar to a car crash test). Checking all SIMs imported into the Russian Federation will lead to an increase in the “level of safety in the operation of devices,” explained Sergey Anikeev, Deputy Head of the General Director of NAMI. If an electric scooter is capable of accelerating above 25 km / h, it is certified as a moped or motorcycle – this is directly stated in the approved GOST.
In the kick-sharing services Yandex.Go, Whoosh and Urent on Tuesday, December 13, they said that all their electric scooters already comply with the new traffic rules and GOST. The standard may become the “first step” towards the formation of technical interstate regulations, the Urent press service suggested, after which the requirements for the import of SIM will become tougher. It is possible that the new document will be used in the analysis of accidents with victims, when the court will need to establish the legal status of a particular SIM and its user, a source in the market suggests.
Despite the voluntariness of execution, experts consider the new standard to be excessively rigid.
Vitaly Gaevsky, professor of the Department of Automobiles at the Moscow Automobile and Road Institute of MADI, draws attention to the norm according to which SIM should have a remote control and slowdown function: its sudden activation, he believes, can lead to a fall of the user, who may simply not be ready for a sharp decrease in speed . “Tracking the location of a law-abiding citizen without his knowledge is a violation of his rights and freedoms, an encroachment on his private life,” Mr. Gaevsky believes. He also dislikes the clause that unicycles must be equipped with a remote to turn on an “audible warning device”. “After all, I can warn others with my voice, and then I will have to be distracted from the movement, constantly holding this remote control in my hands,” Mr. Gaevsky explained to Kommersant. The loss of communication between the remote control and the SIM will lead to the stop of the unicycle, which is generally unsafe for the user, the expert notes.
Note that a number of companies sell powerful electric scooters capable of accelerating up to 75 km/h. “Sooner or later, the market will be regulated,” explained Ilya Priymak, executive director of kugoo-russia.ru (the official distributor of kugoo equipment), Ilya Priymak, to Kommersant. “If GOST becomes mandatory, we will certify equipment according to it. We will introduce a speed limit on our electric scooters, while observing all other requirements. But it takes time to re-profile production to meet new requirements. As for the certification of certain powerful models as mopeds, our lawyers are still studying this possibility.”
The mandatory application of GOST will dramatically increase the cost of SIM, predicts Mikhail Denisov, head of the Center for Individual Mobility. He cited as an example the rule that electric scooters and unicycles must have a block with a SIM card (to force the device to slow down in parks) with a guarantee of work for seven years. “On its own, such a block can cost 5–10 thousand rubles, while it is not clear which service it should connect to,” the expert says.
The State Duma plans to provide school buses with preferences on toll roads
The State Duma adopted in the first reading amendments to the law “On Roads and Road Activities”, exempting school buses and vehicles involved in “organized transportation of groups of children” (on an excursion, to a camp, etc.) from toll roads. The bill was submitted to the parliament by a group of parliamentarians from United Russia (Andrey Turchak, Andrey Kutepov, Andrey Isaev, etc.). According to the explanatory note, the document will reduce “the financial burden on organizations that transport children for educational and other developmental purposes, the vast majority of which are funded from the federal, regional and local budgets.” Today, we recall, public transport, vehicles of operational services with special signals (fire brigade, ambulance), mail have the right to free travel.
The government supported the amendments in its opinion, pointing out that by the second reading it is necessary to provide for a mechanism to compensate for “lost income” as a result of free bus travel for companies participating in concession agreements, PPP agreements (under which roads are built and operated), without resorting to “Expenditures of budgets of the budgetary system of the Russian Federation”. “Additional elaboration requires the implementation of the draft norm in practice in terms of the possibility of identifying school buses and buses carrying out organized transportation of children for the purpose of exempting from tolls on toll roads,” the government believes. The amendments must be prepared by January 11, 2023.
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