When electric scooters were reclassified as «small electric vehicles» they suddenly came under the same drunk drive laws as motorbikes and cars. So the lower courts ruled a bunch of drunk driving of electric scooters as severely as they would drunk driving of a 2000 kg car that can go 200 km/h. Essentially they just followed the precedence of previous rulings on drunk driving without taking into consideration the intent of the law. People got huge fines and lost their car licenses for several months on the assumption that if they were careless enough to drink and drive an electric scooter they would be just as likely to drink and drive their car.
Eventually a case went all the way to the Supreme Court where they actually thought it through and and decided that there wasn’t any reason to assume that a person would drink and drive a car just because they did so with an electric scooter.
When electric scooters were reclassified as «small electric vehicles» they suddenly came under the same drunk drive laws as motorbikes and cars. So the lower courts ruled a bunch of drunk driving of electric scooters as severely as they would drunk driving of a 2000 kg car that can go 200 km/h. Essentially they just followed the precedence of previous rulings on drunk driving without taking into consideration the intent of the law. People got huge fines and lost their car licenses for several months on the assumption that if they were careless enough to drink and drive an electric scooter they would be just as likely to drink and drive their car.
Eventually a case went all the way to the Supreme Court where they actually thought it through and and decided that there wasn’t any reason to assume that a person would drink and drive a car just because they did so with an electric scooter.