A councillor in Blarney claims 16-year-olds should be allowed drive quadricycles.
The battery-powered "micro-cars" have typical top speeds of around 45 kilometres per hour and can be driven by people as young as 14 in Italy.
Speaking on the Neil Prendeville Show, Fine Gael councillor Damian Boylan, who recently went for a spin in one, says this country is an outlier in Europe:
"Technically speaking because they are quadricycles 16-year-olds can drive them. But, in Ireland, we have this weird anomaly where you have to be 17 to drive it because we don't know whether it's a quadricycle or a car. It fits into the definition of a quadricycle European-wide so it is a quadricycle so technically speaking 16-year-olds should be allowed drive it."
