low speed vehicles
These vehicles, although low-speed, offer a variety of advantages, including comparatively low cost and energy-efficient mobility. Further, many of these vehicles are electric-powered. The use of these vehicles, instead of larger, gasoline-powered vehicles like passenger cars, provides quieter transportation that does not pollute the air of the communities in which they are operated.
In recent years, a growing number of states from California to Florida have passed legislation authorizing their local jurisdictions to permit general on-road use of golf carts, subject to speed and/or operational limitations. A majority of those states require these vehicles to have specified safety equipment. Further, some of these states permit the use of vehicles that are faster than most golf cars. Most conventional golf cars, as originally manufactured, have a top speed of less than 15 miles per hour.
Exceptional ValueCheaper to Operate
Low Maintenance
No Noise
No CO2
These states have either redefined golf carts to include vehicles designed to achieve up to 25 miles per hour or have established a new class of vehicles Low Speed Vehicles or LSVs and Neighborhood Electric Vehicles or NEVs also defined as capable of achieving 25 miles per hour. As low speed vehicles, these 20 to 25 mile per-hour vehicles are subject to a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 500 (49 CFR 571.500).
This FMVSS standard requires these vehicles to be equipped with headlamps, stop lamps, turn signal lamps, tail lamps, reflex reflectors, parking brakes, rearview mirrors, windshields, seat belts, and vehicle identification numbers. The agency believes that these requirements appropriately address the safety of low speed vehicle occupants and other roadway users, given the sub-25 mph speed capability of these vehicles and the controlled environments in which they operate.
See this link for information on roads your state allows LSVs:
