Sinclair C5 to guide development. Gus Desbarats, the C5's industrial designer, attributes the vehicle's flawed concept to Sinclair operating in a "bubble" and believes that Sinclair "failed to understand the difference between a new market, computing, and a mature one, transport, where there were more benchmarks to compare against". He comments that the experience of working on the C5 convinced him of the need for industrial designers such as himself to get "involved early in the innovation process, shaping basic configurations, never again [being] satisfied to simply decorate a fundamentally bad idea". Sinclair himself said in 2005 that the C5 "was early
Personal transporter legislators discuss a rapidly emerging potential class of motor vehicle and its relationship to laws relating to other transport devices, including electric bicycles and mobility aids such as mobility scooters. Commonly used terms are used for these new devices include: Media: "rideable", "electric rideable", "electric personal transporter", "personal electric vehicle", "personal transporter" "portable electric vehicle" "portable personal vehicle" and "portable transporter". Legislative: "personal mobility device" (Singapore, Australia - Victoria Transport Policy Unit) "personal e-mobility device" (Underwriters Laboratory), "electrically motorized board" (California USA), "personal light electric vehicles" (European Union), "electric personal assistive mobility device" (Washington State USA), "powered transporters" (UK). Other