Europe

8324 readers

1 users here now

News/Interesting Stories/Beautiful Pictures from Europe 🇪🇺

(Current banner: Thunder mountain, Germany, 🇩🇪 ) Feel free to post submissions for banner pictures

Rules

(This list is obviously incomplete, but it will get expanded when necessary)

Be nice to each other (e.g. No direct insults against each other);
No racism, antisemitism, dehumanisation of minorities or glorification of National Socialism allowed;
No posts linking to mis-information funded by foreign states or billionaires.

Also check out [email protected]

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

986

EU wants over 70s to prove they can still drive every five years (www.brusselstimes.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

153 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The European Union wants elderly people (70+) to undergo medical tests from now on to prove that they are still capable of driving a car every five years. However, the proposal has been met with a lot of criticism.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is quite a brilliant idea. Although we could argue that everyone of all ages should be somewhat tested every x years. The amount of people that are over confident and forget things on the road is quite scary.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I do agree with you, but most of those people do that on purpose and will just drive like they should for those 30/60 minutes. I don't see elderly be able to do that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I kind of agree with this, I do think that an exam should be done every so many years, but I don't think that full on driving test should need to be done. At most maybe a minimal test like make sure you can still do intersections fine and make sure you still know how to use your blinker in Etc but honestly I don't feel like a full-on test is going to be beneficial for anything, a timed exam with common sense questions such as who has the right away in this situation, or when is it appropriate to go through a yellow, basic stuff

In the case of the eu, this isn't an actually a driving test; it is more so of a medical test so like vision and memory tests to verify that you still have situational awareness, which I think will do tremendously more then your standard driving test where you may not even hit a situation that requires a lot of situational awareness

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

In my opinion it should be doctor every 5 years, driving test every 10. And as you get significantely older both intervals get reduced.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I don’t think that full on driving test should need to be done

A full on driving test should be done at least once though. Where I live (Pennsylvania), the "driving test" is basically going around the block and then parallel parking one time. In no sense can it be considered as a comprehensive test of a driver's command of a wide range of potential situations.