Proud to be
Elio Addict
I have a feeling you'll get pulled in an HOV lane and the ticket will be upheld. The Elio is being treated like a car for the most part and laws are changing to make it so. It will take several hundred HOV tickets accross the US to sort this out but I think this HOV ticket will be handed out the most behind speeding.
I asked,
Earlier this year I had a chance to talk to a couple of Portland Police Officer as they walked down my driveway, ( but that is another story), I talked to them about my new Elio coming in 2015...
When they saw the picture of mine, one of the first things they said was... " Hey Look it can drive in the HOV ".... I thought that was odd, that, would be their first words about the Elio...
I asked why can it be?, and they stated that it was because the Elio is " designed " to be only a one person driver, and with the three wheels... made it a motorcycle...so no problems at all in the HOV...
The DMV Laws have already changed here in Oregon, about the Autocycle... so no helmet or motorcycle license is needed... unclear about other States... Elio Motors did state that they believed by the time of production, all State will be covered...
The Officers also said they would talk to the Motorcycle division about fleet sales of Elio's, they liked the whole idea of the Elio.. $6800 price, 84 mpg, really liked the 5 star roll cage rating, and mostly getting out of the weather...
So Police Elio's are going to be on the streets... I am guessing that the fleet sales for City, State, Government, and Police will be really big with Elio Motors...
NO! you can't blame me, for the first time you get pulled over by a Police Officer in a Elio...
Even with that said... I still believe I am going to get pulled over a lot... until the Police have their own!, Elio's to grin about...
Proud to Be... an Elio owner ..#2225 see ya on the road... "give me a wave"