Why don’t they follow road rules?

I’ve always been under the impression that a fuel combustion vehicle must have a license plate in order to operate on any of our state roadways. Why then are gas and electric scooters allowed to invade streets meant for cars and trucks only?

We adult, law-abiding drivers are required to have a registration, license plates, all lights (including directional signals and stop lights), a driver’s license and insurance, but more than that, we are required by law to first take and pass a drivers’ test! However, scooter operators are not only too young to obtain a license, but invariably are even too young to own a gas or electric vehicle. By allowing these youngsters to break highway laws now, they are being conditioned to think that later in life they can do the same. This is both dangerous and sad.

In the past, I had an electric golf cart. And even though I was an adult driver at the time, who had all the material required by law, did I get to drive on streets anywhere? No!

Is there something I’m missing about Washington laws? Who is responsible for the scooter drivers who endanger both themselves and us? Why are not the stores, which sell these dangerous contraptions, required by law to demand proof of age, registration, license, etc., just as for all other vehicles? Someone has to be responsible for the children who operate scooters – on or off our public roadways.

Everett