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I think these should be called scooters. Unfortunately, English also uses that word for kick scooters, and now the two are hopelessly confused.
by Camillo 8y ago
I think these should be called scooters. Unfortunately, English also uses that word for kick scooters, and now the two are hopelessly confused.
- ghaff 8y agoThe terminology is a complete muddle in English. Even reading through that article I had to go back and forth a bit to understand what was being discussed in a given paragraph. If you just say scooter these days, there are about four different things you could be referring to.
- sandworm101 8y agoThe term is "motor scooter". Just like a motorcycle is a bicycle with an engine, these are scooters with motors. A moped does have to have pedals and there are some companies making them. But the entire thing is an anachronistic shell game. These are all motorcycles, just of lesser power/ability. They only exist because of silly legal classifications that mean little on a modern street. Everyone on the street riding something with two wheels and a motor should get a motorcycle license, a helmet, and be subject to proper emission controls.
- ghaff 8y agoExcept this is actually electric. (Which in fact does mean it has a motor although, to add to the confusion, motor is often used to mean engine :-) ) As a result, by analogy with motorcycle, I would assume a motor scooter had a gasoline engine.
- singularity2001 8y agohow about "electro scooter"?
- notatoad 8y agofor all practical purposes, actual mopeds with pedals don't exist in north america, so using moped as a short word for a sit-down motor scooter is pretty unambigious. not sure if pedal-mopeds have similarly fallen out of favour in the rest of the world?