Four personal mobility devices were caught on camera riding on the road in Woodlands like they didn't care if they got knocked down by real vehicles.

A one-minute video of the PMD riders antics was taken from the perspective of a vehicle tailgating the quartet of PMDs with seven people in total -- as three of the PMDs were accommodating pillion riders.

The video has been watched more than a quarter of a million times in three days since it was uploaded on July 28.

Honked incessantly

Such devices are not allowed on the roads.

They have a maximum speed limit of 10kmh on footpaths.

The vehicle tailgating the group of riders honked repeatedly and flashed the high beam in an attempt to warn them to get off the road, but at the risk of causing them to crash.

Responses

Responses to the video are varied.

Some questioned the vehicle driver's intention of repeatedly harassing the PMD users with incessant honking that might cos them to lose their balance on the road.

Others praised the vehicle for sounding repeated warnings.

The majority of the comments were still targeted at blaming the PMD riders for being the minority who cause problems for the rest of the rule-abiding PMD-riding community in Singapore.

Thousands of PMD users caught in 1 year

Some 4,350 errant PMD users & cyclists were caught in one year between May 2018 and June 2019.

Inconsiderate PMD users have caused multiple injuries to pedestrians.

This has resulted in retaliation and the setting up of methods to nab errant users.

The Singapore authorities have even launched a new feature in the MyTransport.SG mobile app to report errant PMD riders.

It begins on July 31, 2019.

PMD users ought to refer to these new rules: