Chair Abreu asks if dynamometers would help officers make determinations

My introduction, 986, would require NYPD to use dynamometers, portable devices that are capable of verifying the maximum wattage and motor-assisted speed of micromobility devices.

And finally, I'm just going to ask this question.

Would you agree that having access to a real-time objective verification of a device's maximum wattage and motor-assisted speed would assist officers in making on-the-ground determinations about a device's legality?

And again, in the abstract, the answer to that is yes, of course.

There are a host of practical, pragmatic considerations that just have to be thought through.

That's all.

All right.

So I'm going to show you this photo right here.

I want to take a pause here and I'll show my colleagues.

All right, look at this.

Look at this.

I want to take a pause here and just stress how difficult it can be to distinguish between legal and illegal micromobility devices.

Agreed.

In each of these images, one of the devices is street legal in New York City and the

The other is not.

Can you tell the difference?

No, answer that.

I mean, you can't.

Of course.

Okay.

I am not going to ask you on this moment to try and verify which is which because I recognize that it is an unfair question.

But I think seeing these types of devices side by side, one legal and one not, drives home how nearly impossible it is to tell what kind of device is which by just looking at them.

If we want to be able to get the fast and dangerous illegal devices off our streets, and to do so without unfairly targeting or confiscating legal devices, we need a way to identify

device types accurately, and dynamometers will give us this ability and take the guesswork out of enforcement.

Thank you.