With golf carts growing in popularity, many are left wondering if they're street legal

Families all over North Texas are turning to golf carts as a convenient way to get around for short distances, sometimes even on roads they aren't built for.

[@myronlarimer1943]

$40K for a golf cart? No thanks. Just another toy for people who have more money than they do common sense. That is twice the price of a Honda Civic which is a real car, street legal and full of safety features…

[@lgwappo]

This makes sense as a city vehicle. I had a 50cc Honda scooter that went 35 mph & got over 100 mpg & I went all over the city on it. Top speed only limited me once I got out of the city & suburbs. This is where electric vehicles make sense to me. Not day trips on highways.

[@davidhall2569]

Low speed vehicles are street legal depending on your state laws

[@nunyabidness3075]

Given the number of NASCAR wannabes on our freeways driving dangerously unhindered by law enforcement, I’d be really surprised if you got a ticket for driving a golf cart.

[@lightingbolt8148]

Thank you for this, I questioned if they were

[@paulg9484]

Lol, get a used chevy bolt for 16-18k instead of this? certified safety

[@SunnynPhilly]

Might as well get a Model 3 if you’re dropping 40k on a golf cart 😂. *not saying a giant fast golf cart doesn’t look fun though! 🤙

[@lightingbolt8148]

40k for a fun ride around neighborhood seems like a waste, might as well buy another car

[@barbaramcspadden6351]

They are for the "wind in your hair and the bugs in your teeth" crowd.😁

[@Animalstyle69]

Well, you gotta have insurance and registration. I suppose turn signals brake lights all that.

[@mowcowbell]

Why bother with something like that when a real auto like a Chevy Bolt is available for around $25K? I see these golf carts driven by kids in my neighborhood all the time, going well in excess of the residential street speed limit.

[@Animalstyle69]

Because you don’t need registration insurance all that and they’re much simpler to maintain and Chevys are garbage besides those things I guess you have a point

[@AerialEscape]

Shoes for the 89' Bronco 😂

[@ReclaimOurFreedom]

Envy UK you would actually be in the uk you are allowed to drive a golf cart on a public highway provided it has been type approved as a car including on a at highway speeds

[@davieee1168]

Never really understood why there are so many of those tiny cars, scooters and cyclists on the road in Europe - and not in the US? Seems like the ideal place, as a lot of places are not in walking distance in the US.

[@stephendupuis6062]

I just saw a golfer driving his cart down Beach street in Fort Worth on Sunday. It was not road legal. He looked like he was running from the cops.

[@user-ey4xj3bh4p]

Price?

[@mannyromero4511]

Seriously? Here's your answer from an old school police...1) Is it registered (license plated) 2) inspected 3) Insured So....that's the vehicle All other issues are covered by 100 year old laws in the Texas traffic code. All you new Gen. Police point your ears now, it's not what YOU think, it's what Texas Traffic Code and Penal Code say. Nobody gives one damn what you think and rightly so.

[@lightingbolt8148]

Still not for roads grandpa

[@OnWisconsin33]

I walk 6 miles a day in summer and a little more when it's below 90 degrees the rest of the year. Unfortunately, golfcarts are beginning to use our 4- and 5-feet wide sidewalks. Make it walkable and the golfcarts will steal that, too. The management company won't enforce the rules, so I have to believe that at least 1 or 2 of our HOA board members have golfcarts.

[@danielj.rodriguez8621]

Just add a few bollards that let pedestrians and bikes through but not anything wider.

[@speer320]

Or. You could make walkable neighborhoods.

[@mastershake156]

It's kinda hard with little kids.

[@speer320]

@@mastershake156 don’t build a neighborhood that requires everyone to drive as the only option.

[@mastershake156]

@@speer320 nothing is walking distance for little kids. I even need to carry them while at a store or stadium. Sometimes vehicles are just necessary when little kids are involved.

[@speer320]

@@mastershake156 every other developed nation outside the us and Canada would disagree. It is choice to build car dependency.

[@mastershake156]

@@speer320 and we chose to be better than those countries.

[@barbaramcspadden6351]

Golf cart laws should be aimed at people you don't WANT driving a 5000 lb vehicle. Especially the elderly (like me). My town has numerous unpaved roads. The police tend to ignore them, but this should be LEGAL.

[@isaac198428]

People who don’t drive electric cars hate them but will drive golf carts for their run-arounds through the town. Electric vehicles were meant for this cruising around town to run errands but in a safer way protected from the elements. Not long distance highways driving.

[@pitch5330]

Same thing with those kandi cars that can’t go on the highway just rich people wasting more money

[@lightingbolt8148]

Definitely

[@Leavemykindalone1154]

Like a Moped

[@SMG-0_0]

Or Harrisburg

[@SMG-0_0]

Imagine they were in America

[@clintonreisig]

FREEDOM

[@snoplau9994]

What about it?

[@sweetaddictiontoawesomenes6831]

No comments

[@TinyHouseHomestead]

Land vehicles are just like air vehicles or sea vehicles, if you are going to operate them on the public roadways it needs to meet the minimum reqirements to operate upon on those roadways! 😱😝🤪😁🤣👍👍🇺🇲

[@djazzyq]

Disinformation at its finest. Under Texas law, golf carts with a state issued golf cart license plate are authorized to operate on any road within a master-planned community platted by a municipality or the county with a uniform set of restrictive covenants. There is no maximum posted speed limit of roadways within master-planned communities upon which golf carts can operate. Golf carts without a golf cart license plate can operate on roads in a master planned community with a maximum posted speed limit of 35 mph. Municipalities may also authorize the use of golf carts outside of master-planned communities. If roads outside of master planned communities are authorized by ordinance in a municipality, operation must be restricted to roads with a posted speed limit of 35 mph or less and certain minimum safety equipment is required. A golf cart license plate is required on these roads. LSV or NEVs  are a separate class of vehicle from golf carts and are sold with 17 digit VINs. A full blown license plate is issued for NEVs and LSVs and they may be operated on any road in the state of Texas with a speed limit of less than 45 mph

[@OnWisconsin33]

That's a very good explanation and it's right on the money. But, please tell us about the motor vehicle code provisions about operating on sidewalks (the 4- and 5-feet kinds that run parallel to the street) AND the provision that states that cars in driveways must leave AT LEAST 16" of the sidewalk clear for pedestrians? I was on a Zoom annual HOA meeting and read the driveway statue to the guest Harris County, Texas Precinct 5 Constable and he'd never heard of it. How can we protect our rights if the cops don't even know or enforce them???

[@schmidtwoodworks533]

Tucker schools CNN

[@DickNasty480]

These idiots will drive these carts on the sidewalk and think nothing of it.