Sweden lets 15-year-olds drive SUVs unaccompanied, and the EU wants this allowed across all 27 Member States (for 16-year-olds). Here comes a thread on why this is a terrible idea. youtu.be/3HvPAoDnHmA?... - ThreadSky

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etsc.eu • 22 days ago

Sweden lets 15-year-olds drive SUVs unaccompanied, and the EU wants this allowed across all 27 Member States (for 16-year-olds).

Here comes a thread on why this is a terrible idea.

https://youtu.be/3HvPAoDnHmA?si=22Na7Ea1M0_PhPIK

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etsc.eu•22 days ago

The @ec.europa.eu has plans to update rules on driving licences which include a proposal to allow 16-year-olds to obtain a 'B1' licence, enabling them to drive a car weighing up to 2.5t as long as a speed limiter is fitted that prevents the vehicle from accelerating above 45 km/h.

etsc.eu•22 days ago

What's the Swedish connection?

For years, Sweden has had an obscure category of vehicle known as an A-traktor which enables 15-year-olds to drive cars and pickups modified, if necessary, to have no more than two seats, and with top speed limited to 30 km/h.

https://youtu.be/_Mh52p5qdo0?si=YD7MKB-BeamVXi2K

etsc.eu•22 days ago

In Finland, in 2020, the government launched a plan to allow 15-year-olds to drive smaller cars (up to 1500 kg) fitted with a speed limiter set at 60 km/h – but the proposal for so-called ‘light cars’ was blocked by the European Commission.

https://etsc.eu/finland-drops-cars-for-kids-plan/

etsc.eu•22 days ago

Rather than outlawing these anomalies permanently, the European Commission decided to potentially expand the concept to youngsters across the EU.

etsc.eu•22 days ago

Are teenagers safer driving low-speed cars, than on mopeds or on quad bikes and mini-cars ?

A youngster may theoretically be safer behind the wheel of a 30 km/h speed-limited, full-size car, than riding a motorcycle or driving a quadricycle. But this obscures several critically important factors:

etsc.eu•22 days ago

In Sweden, the only market that allows the very young to drive speed-limited full-size cars, tampering to avoid speed limitation has become the norm.

https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1841840/FULLTEXT01.pdf

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