Comment by ClumsyPilot
3 years ago
Roller skates are clearly not a vehicle. Similarly, neither is a wheelchair. They are not reasonably separable form the person using them.
A bicycle actually goes on roads, follow rules and get a ticket for jumping a red light.
The person riding the bicycle does those things, the bicycle is a tool. A tool can't follow rules.
You can take roller skates off, get out of a wheelchair, and get off a bicycle.
Imagine you were wearing roller skates being pulled by a dog.
Imagine you were sitting in a chair, with a roller skate bound to each leg of the chair, rolling down a hill.
Imagine you were a flea in a roller skate rolling down a hill.
Imagine you were a dog in a wheelchair rolling down a hill.
Imagine you were a flea on a dog in a chair with roller skates on its legs rolling down a hill.
> Roller skates are clearly not a vehicle
I don't think that's particularly clear and I think a non-negligible number of people would disagree
It isn't so clear to me. If it conveys a human in any way that humans don't naturally move unassisted then in my mind it qualifies as a conveyance and hence a vehicle, especially in the sense of the the French véhicule, from Latin vehiculum (“a carriage, conveyance”), from vehere (“to carry”)
Stilts? How tall? Platform shoes? How tall?