The legislation is really slow to catch up to these things, as it says in the article. It sounds like other alternative transports have been greenlit in recent years, and those also took time. I empathize with both sides. On the one hand, people have found a lower cost,highly efficient way to get around without a car - that’s a very good thing! On the other hand, people aren’t used to them being on the roads, they technically aren’t supposed to be yet, and they aren’t insurable just yet, there’s no agreed upon operating procedures for them to be on public roads, and it’s a matter of time before someone hits one and they argue they had no way of knowing to even look for that type of vehicle and they’re currently not wrong. Nobody wants that but it will happen.

Hopefully they can catch up to the times and get them okayed, but until then the tickets unfortunately make sense.