Stores selling electric scooters openly advising how to flout safety laws

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Stores selling electric scooters openly advising how to flout safety laws
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An Irish Mirror investigation showed how some sales reps are telling punters the ways safety features can be altered to double speeds

Some outlets selling electric scooters are openly advising customers how easy it is to flout new safety laws, an Irish Mirror investigation shows.

READ MORE: Calls for Ticketmaster to come before Dail committee to explain 'daylight robbery' of Oasis fansThis newspaper visited outlets, which we are not naming for legal reasons, that explained to an undercover reporter ways to circumvent the new rules which state that safety features and settings should not be altered to boost speeds.

The sales rep told our undercover reporter that 90% of customers who have purchased electric scooters from the store have requested the limiter be removed. When asked if it was worrying people, the sales rep said: “Yes and no, like some people don’t give a s**t.” During our conversation, the employee said the decision to remove the speed limitation was our “call” and confirmed this would mean it was no longer “road legal”.

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