Users of rolling electric scooters were offered to verify through « public services »
Kikshering companies invited the authorities to introduce the mandatory verification of users of rolling electric scooters through the Public Service portal. A similar measure, business representatives are sure, will reduce the number of cases when minor mobility (SI) is rented by minors, which is prohibited by the rules. More than 30% of wounded in accidents with electric scooters, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, are adolescents 10-17 years old. The mincifers said that they were ready to conduct a pilot experiment on the proposal of a business, but for “widespread” verification, the legislation needs to be changed.
The press service of the Kommersant’s Ministry of Construction said that a number of kikshering companies (without specifying what specific) applied to the department with a proposal to introduce mandatory verification through the public services portal for users of the rental electric scooters.
Until recently, we recall, to users of Kikshering (according to the assessments of the Association of Operators of Tours, more than 61 million people), it was enough to install the application by tying a bank card to it. At the same time, the user signs the contract with the company, undertaking to comply with the established rules. In the agreement with MTS.ust and Yandex.GO, a ban on access to scooters for minors is recorded, Whoosh allows in a number of cities to rent 16-year-olds. If a violation is detected (for example, during the traffic police raid), the operator’s fine for violation of the rule is 30-100 thousand rubles. To further tighten access to the service of children and adolescents in March 2025, the capital’s authorities ordered the operators to bind the application to the account on Mos.ru (only adults receive a full account on the portal). Now business proposes to introduce verification already at the federal level. Kikshering today is represented in more than 210 cities of the Russian Federation.
The Association of Operators of Tours, said they were ready to introduce verification. “According to statistics, 99.9% of the townspeople follow the rules of traffic on scooters,” they say in Whoosh. “Verification through“ State Services ”will help not allow the small segment of users who violate the rules of the offer to the service. The lack of anonymity when registering in the application can become an instrument in order to eliminate violators of the rules of safe trips. ” “Integration with“ public services ”is one of the most effective and convenient tools to cut off users who, by virtue of age, are not able to evaluate the possible consequences of trips on such transport as scooters, add to“ MTS.ust ”.“ The pilot project with Mos.ru in Moscow already shows that digital integration is more effective than any other restrictive tools ”. “In order for trips on scooters to be comfortable and safe for all road users, all cities need verification and testing systems,” added to Yandex.GO.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in 2024, more than 4.4 thousand accidents occurred with the participation of personal mobility (SI), in which 54 people were killed, 4.59 thousand 32% of all wounded in accidents with Sim are 10-17 years old. 65% of all accidents with Sim occur with the participation of kikshering devices.
The “widespread implementation” of verification of users of kikshering services is not planned, Kommersant said to the Ministry of Cyphra. “In order to connect authorization through the“ public services ”on any resource, a normative justification is needed,” the department explained. “The issue of inclusion of one of the operators in the authorization experiment through the“ public services ”, conducted by the Ministry of Construction of the Government No. 453, is being worked out. This document, valid since 2021, allows certain companies to request access to the information stored on the Public Service portal (for example, when registering on social networks, concluding a contract of sale, etc.). “Participants in the experiment, together with the Ministry of Construction, determine the services and scenarios in which the account is used,” Kommersant explained to the ministry. “Users can transfer only those information that they agree to provide, for example, about age. It will be possible to withdraw consent to their processing at any time. ”
“At first glance, the idea is good and logical, I don’t see any obstacles to make such a verification,” Tatyana Butskaya (EP), the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Protection of the Family, told Kommersant. “It is clear that some adolescents will try to get around new restrictions. But such cases, I am sure, can be minimized if you think about the control mechanism at the stage of development of the system. I would also think about mandatory insurance for riding electricities by analogy with CTP. This issue also needs to be worked out. ” Member of the Public Chamber, Alexander Kholodov, believes that first it is necessary to analyze the effect of verification on mos.ru, and only then spread a similar measure to the whole country with the help of « public services ». The head of the Union of Pedestrians, Vladimir Sokolov recalls that, according to independent estimates, about 500-600 thousand private electric scooters move on the roads of Russia. “Kikshering companies do not control them, it will be difficult to tie them to any system of verification,” says Mr. Sokolov. The Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, recall, prepare a package of documents on the introduction among other mandatory registration of all SIM with the issuance of numbers by analogy with the registration of cars. The new rules will affect the owners of all electric charges and SIM, including private ones.
