Electric scooters to get green light to go on Britain's public roads

Legalisation of e-scooters part of government's wider plan for 'transport revolution'

Electric scooters will be allowed on public roads for the first time under a Department for Transport proposal which will consult on the rules required to allow the new technology to operate safely, the government has announced.

The legalisation of e-scooters is just one proposal in a wider plan to enable a "transport revolution", which also involves projects to trial medical deliveries to the Isle of Wight using autonomous drones, and a test of self-driving cars between Bristol and Bath.