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

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[–] 29 points 3 years ago (9 children)

This sounds totally reasonable, maybe the time frame is even a little too long for people over 80. Like it or not, your body, sight, reflexes etc do change.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (7 children)

    I don't feel that needs to be regulated by the EU, it's fine that the general rule is that there has to be 5-year checks, and the rest is up to the individual member states.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    A driving license from any EU state is valid in all EU states. Hence it should be regulated by the EU.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Your EU license is also valid in the US, doesn't mean you get to dictate US law.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Other way around. The US can define some requirements that foreign licenses must fulfill to be valid in the US. In Europe with way smaller countries, such per-country approval would get ridiculous quite quickly, so they decided to make EU licenses that are valid everywhere, and for that they need some common requirements that every country must fulfill

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    And each country get to decide things like the legal age, this isn't decided by the EU, and each country also get to decide if they accept driver younger than the limit age in their country, so no a license is just valid anywhere without restrictions.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    They can increase or lower the legal age of their own licenses but they have to recognize licenses of other EU states that are lower than their own legal age but but above the EU legal age. Other EU member states do not have to recognize the lower legal age licenses, though they can.

    This of course is decided by the EU for EU member states.

    Your EU license is also valid in the US, doesn’t mean you get to dictate US law.

    I doubt it is true, US licenses without an IDP are not permitted in the EU and while many small rentals will rent to US tourists if those tourists get involved in an accident or otherwise have to produce a license to the authorities.. it won't go well.

    doesn’t mean you get to dictate US law.

    That would be because the US is not an EU member.

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