Your link is about mopeds, not scooters. (Confusingly, mopeds are often called s...

emteycz · on Oct 28, 2018

Even more confusingly, "moped" often means a less powerful "scooter". In Czech, "moped" is 50ccm, scooter ("skůtr", pronounced the same) is up to 125ccm.

mcjiggerlog · on Oct 28, 2018

That's generally what they mean in most countries, in my experience.

masklinn · on Oct 28, 2018

Yep, except the US where scooter means kick-scooter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_scooter

mikestew · on Oct 28, 2018

It means both, youngin’, and has as long as I remember. There was a change to the API these last few years where calling the scooter() method with no parameters now gives you a kick scooter, but you can still call using the withSeat flag and get a step-through vehicle.

grey_earthling · on Oct 28, 2018

That's what “scooter” means in the UK too.

DonaldFisk · on Oct 28, 2018

In the UK, a "scooter" can be either a kick scooter like the one shown in the article or here: https://www.microkickboard.com/childrens-scooters , or a motor scooter, like the ones shown here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_(motorcycle) , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_(subculture)

This is a moped: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moped . It has bicycle pedals and a motor. You don't see them much nowadays.

There have recently been many reports of "moped crime": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moped_crime_in_London but this seems to be done on motor scooters rather than mopeds: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/terrifying-moment-west...

eckmLJE · on Oct 28, 2018

Mopeds have a specific definition and history involving pedals--a scooter is more commonly used to refer to a gas powered, step-through motorized cycle.

village-idiot · on Oct 28, 2018

Not in the regions of the US where I’ve lived. Here mopeds are step through 2 stroke gasoline motorcycles, while scooters are foot or electric powered vehicles you stand on.