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The DGT ends the extension and anticipates mandatory insurance for 4 million vehicles

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They wanted to launch it on January 2, 2026 but at the end of December last year They confirmed that it would not be possible. Now, the DGT returns to the fray to try to organize everything related to light personal vehicles. That is, the scooters and derivatives that circulate on our streets. This time yes, this time there will be registration. Start-up. The DGT has confirmed that users of personal mobility vehicles (VMP) will have to register in the electronic traffic headquarters their electric scooters if they want to circulate in accordance with the law. Traffic wanted to have this measure ready with the start of the new year but it was today that the Council of Ministers gave the green light to the measure. In its last meeting, the Government approved the royal decree that regulates the operation of the Registry of Light Personal Vehicles to “comply with the first additional provision of Law 5/2025 of July 24, which modified the law on civil liability and insurance in the circulation of motor vehicles to introduce the obligation to insure all personal mobility vehicles, which came into force on January 2 pending the launch of the registry.” What does this mean? In short, if you have an electric scooter you will have to register it with Traffic. The measure is taken to have control of, according to the DGT, the four million personal mobility vehicles that circulate on our streets. The procedure is slightly different, as we will see later, depending on the age of the electric scooter but it is key because it is the first step to force the user to have insurance for your vehicle. The DGT already warns that not having it will be grounds for a fine “According to the provisions of the law on civil liability and insurance, lacking it will be penalized with between 202 and 610 euros and driving with a VMP without insurance with between 250 and 800 euros depending on whether it is considered a light personal vehicle or motor vehicle (more than 25 kilograms in weight and more than 14 kilometers/hour) by the aforementioned Insurance Law. They already have a certificate. In addition to registration and insurance, electric scooters must have a certificate in which all the technical characteristics of the electric scooter are collected. This allows an agent check if a scooter is complying with regulations or, on the contrary, it has been tricked to circulate above the maximum authorized speed of 25 km/h. This certification is collected with a plate on the chassis of the vehicle and is present on all electric scooters sold in Spain since January 22, 2024. The DGT itself, as happens with the V-16 beaconshas on its website a list with all approved scooters to be sold in our country. In this case, if the electric scooter already has this certificate, in the electronic office it will be enough to fill in the certificate number and the serial number. Then a digital registration certificate is issued so that our vehicle is registered as registered. Does not have certificate. In this case, you have a problem. First because the DGT requires that these scooters also be registered although at the time of purchase it was not mandatory to have the certificate. To do this, it is mandatory to have an invoice or technical sheet from the VMP and a photograph. If you do not have an invoice, the only possible procedure is to homologate the vehicle by going through a laboratory certified by the DGT to obtain the technical sheet. Once the certificate is obtained, the DGT issues an identification sticker that must be affixed in a visible place, as is the case with environmental badges on cars. And keep in mind that if you want to keep your scooter it is worth it. Without a certificate registration is not possible and without registration it is not possible to insure the electric scooter. The DGT opens an extension to certify all these scooters until January 22, 2027. From then on it will not be possible to circulate with a VMP without a certificate. How do I do it? As we said, the DGT will enable a space in its electronic headquarters where the entire process can be carried out. At the moment, this space is not open but Traffic assures us that it will be available “in the coming days.” In addition, the DGT assures that they will enable a channel to register the electric scooter when contracting the insurance and that they are working to be able to register it at the time the scooter is purchased at the establishment. Will they fine me? According to the press release, yes. As we said above, with fines of between 200 and 800 euros. However, Traffic does not specify in its press release from what date it will be mandatory to have a registered vehicle and insurance to avoid receiving the fine. Right now, we only know that scooters without a certificate have until January 22, 2027 to obtain it. When asked about this, the DGT has not given us exact dates or deadlines either. Traffic limits itself to stating that it will be informed about this and that the platform will be available “in the coming days” but there is no date indicated on the calendar. Photo | Marek Rucinski In Xataka | $25,000 fine for driving a souped-up electric scooter: Toronto has decided to apply a heavy hand to them

They have created an extension for you

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We already warned you, AI is ruining the internet and things have not improved. I recently talked about how Etsy, the craft platform par excellence, had become a minefield riddled with AI. I have encountered this problem myself by searching for decoration ideas or haircuts on Pinterest. Distinguish what is real and what is not It’s impossible. Given this scenario, someone has had a radical idea: travel to the past Slop Evader This is the name of the invention of Tega Brainan artist and researcher who, like many people, is also tired of finding AI in absolutely every corner of the internet. The author admits in 404media that he was thinking of ways to avoid all the AI ​​’slop’ that plagues the internet and “the simplest and silliest way to do it is to only look before 2022.” Slop Evader is a browser extension that filters searches so that only results older than November 30, 2022 appear. Why that date? because it was on ChatGPT launch day. The extension is compatible with Firefox and Chrome, which means that you can also install it on any Chromium-based browser such as Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera or Vivaldi. To install it, simply access it through one of the following links: Return to the pre-AI era This is what this extension wants to achieve. After installing it, we can click on the extension icon and a panel like the one you can see in the image will open. In it, we have seven search fields for different websites: Google, Reddit, Quora, Stack Exchange, Mumset, Pinterest and YouTube. The author plans to expand the available sites. Obviously, if you need to find updated results, this tool is not for you, since you will only be able to see things from three years ago. But the objective of Slop Evader is not to be a productivity tool, but to denounce a situation that, far from improving, seems to be every day it gets worse. Of course, even though it is not its objective, it has already been useful to me and I have been able to look for ideas for curly haircuts without the AI ​​ending up confusing me. The permanent doubt Until recently it was relatively easy to detect what was made with AI and what was not. The first slop either AI filth that flooded the networks It was detected instantly; Of course, these were animals and people with impossible anatomies that transformed into the most disturbing beasts. The arrival of new video generation tools like Sora 2 They have made many videos pass as real. Who hasn’t had an AI video shared without knowing it? And if they haven’t shared it with you, you probably have. Click on the image to access the post in X. Much AI content is still detectable to the trained eye, but the arrival of Nano Banana Pro has crossed the line of what is real and what is not. A few days ago my colleague Javier Lacort said that we have just entered the era of permanent doubtone in which looking at an image will automatically make us suspicious and think twice before sharing it, lest we end up looking like a boomer. Is extra cognitive work What we will have to do with each of the images we see every day. It’s no small thing. And there is not only generative AI in social networks. I commented at the beginning about the case of Etsy, but the thing is that AI is reaching Idealista, where there are advertisements with immaculate houses that later turn out to be falling apart. The excuse is that “this is how you see how it would look renovated.” Slop Evader He reports the problem, but it doesn’t solve it. This will require a more forceful effort on the part of the large platforms and even governments that will allow real images to be verified from those generated by AI. Images | Slop Evader, Xataka In Xataka | The ChatGPT Atlas agent made my purchase at Mercadona and now I have a pantry full of garlic

The northern hemisphere has the highest snow extension of the last 20 years. In Spain that sounds like science fiction

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While the extension of Arctic Ice was in January the second lowest Since there are satellite data, snow is giving a surprise. According to the NOAAsnow levels in the northern hemisphere are the highest in 20 years. Although the truth is that Europe (even less in Spain) we are not noticing it. What about snow in the northern hemisphere? It is soon to know. As we knowthere are many descriptors of winter in the hemisphere that may seem inconsistent with each other, but that are only a sample of the enormous climate complexity of the earth. As with Any extraordinary event (And, of course, this amount of snow is) now it remains a whole series of analysis to know what is behind and what we can expect in the coming years. So much to Nevado? So we know more detailed analysis, the increase in snow extension It is mainly due to the strong snowfall that were in early February in Asia and North America. Especially, a huge snowstorm that lasted a week caused many problems In Russia in general and In the distant this Russian in particular. In the US and Canada too They are having more Normal Snowbut the Russian storm is the key push for these historical records. And in Spain? On our side, the extension of snow in Europe is below the average. And, as a result that snowfalls are becoming more irregular, higher levels, Spain is even worse. In the Cantabrian Mountains, for example, We are at 72.6 hm³ Faced with the average of 250. In the Pyrenees, 764 compared to 1400 of the average of the last 10 years. On the other hand, the central and Iberian systems accumulate about 5 hm³ compared to 50 on average. The only one Discordant note is Sierra Nevada: The surroundings of the most southern ski resort in Europe has 12.7 hm³. That is, not only is it twice as the central mountain ranges, but almost exactly the same amount of snow as in the average of the last decade. Little snow … For now. As Nacho Espinos explained in Meteored“just 7% of the mountainous surface in Spain” is covered with snow. In aggregate terms, there are 1,160.9 hm³ of snow compared to 2,000 average. Of course, we will have to wait to see how the year ends: in the 2023/2024 season, the great snow peak came between March and April. And, honestly, time is unpredictable that (despite the “advanced spring” we are living) any scenario is reasonable. Image | NOAA | Joan Oger In Xataka | Snowing stations at the end of the century: the most pessimistic models show what could happen in our high mountain

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