Free licences for drivers over 25: researcher
Published: 1 Nov 12 14:54 CET | Print version
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Swedes who apply for their driver’s licence after turning 25 should get it for free, a researcher has proposed, arguing that the move would reduce traffic deaths by encouraging young people to wait to get their licences.
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“It would be an incentive to wait.”
In Sweden, drivers under the age of 25 are over represented in traffic accidents and injuries, statistics that Björnstig argued could be improved.
“When the economy was bad in the nineties, very few young people got their licences and the death statistics sank immediately.”
Björnstig, who works as a plastic surgeon but has been researching traffic accidents, stressed that the prospective rule changes wouldn’t alter any current laws.
Rather, young people would be rewarded for waiting, and therefore would save society the expenses that come hand in hand with younger drivers.
The reason young Swedes are involved in so many accidents can be put down to an underdeveloped brain and the difficulty of overcoming peer pressure, said Nils-Petter Gregersen, research head at the Swedish National Road and Transport Institute (Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut -VTI), to the Västerbottens-Kuriren newspaper.
Björnstig pointed to foreign countries with stricter rules on young drivers as examples of how regulations can improve both accident and drunk driving statistics.
He argued in favour of countries such as the US, where young motorists have curfews and other youths are forbidden from being in the car with other young drivers.
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How much cost get driver licence?
I live in Russia, cost of learning to get for driving licence about 1000-1500$
I think that situation on roads of your country is no bad.
Most crashes in russia happened caused by drunk drivers: (
Sweden doesn't need more people with a license however. Not until the massive lack of road capacity and the current absurdly low speed limits have been fixed.
It does not matter how old you are when you start driving if you are not taught to drive defensively. It is simply: Think always what the driver of the other cars will do before you decide what to do.
An small example: A red light indicates that the driver MUST stop to let those who have a green light to move on. But, many drivers DO NOT stop at the red light; they continue and someone will crash with them.
In Sweden, --I have been told--- It does not matter if it is raining, snowing, icy or whatever on the streets, roads or highways. You will always have an idiot behind you blinking his lights so you move
and let him pass. If you do not move, because you have a big trailer on your right side, he does not care. He continues driving one meter behind you and molesting with his horn and/or with the hight beam.
Driving is a matter of education, practice and experience. It is not a matter of price. Who can assure that a 25 year-old driver will drive better than a 70 year-old grandmother?
"The reason young Swedes are involved in so many accidents can be put down to an underdeveloped brain and the difficulty of overcoming peer pressure, said Nils-Petter Gregersen, research head at the Swedish National Road and Transport Institute".
I can say that researchers like Gregersen are the ones who can be put down to an underdeveloped brain and the difficulty of thinking with common sense. They just simply does not enjoy it.