>MEPs are debating whether to force motorists to pass medical exams if they want to keep their driving licences in the EU.
Before people start going off about how long waiting times are for driving tests are already.
Something is needed anyway, far too many people drive long after they’ve lost the ability to safely do it.
How many countries actually have life long licences. France is 99 years. Ours has to be renewed and can require eye tests.
Who wants to tell old people they can’t drive anymore
Go to any supermarket car park during the working day and wait around a while. It won’t take very long until you spot the people who very obviously should have an assessment for fitness to drive. They will hobble to their car and promptly try to struggle to get out of the space. They may even cut out a few times or struggle to get in to gear to move off.
Why there is objection to this is mind blowing. The proposal is for everyone to be assessed every 15 years and the assessment is for vision, hearing and reaction times. It’s the bare minimum. Even 15 years is an exceptionally long time.
The only counter point is that I suspect that elderly people who may not pass the assessment may not actually be contributing significantly to road deaths but they are contributing to fender benders for sure.
I’m just surprised there are countries like life long driving licences.
Reaction times do go down. So does the ability to scan ahead. Hearing, vision etc.
Makes sense.
Everyone should have to sit the full drivers test every 10 years, so many terrible drivers on the road, it’s the 60 year old men in roundabouts that’s the worst in my opinion, they havnt a clue what to do
Don’t we do this already?
I’m not against this but anything that involves bureaucratic processes and health suffers from endless waiting times here in Ireland
Should be more than a medical check as far as I’m concerned. You should have to sit the test every 10 years when it expires
If you can’t pass it then you shouldn’t be on the road any more than a 20 year old who can’t pass it for the first time
That’s OK, it’s nearly impossible to get any driv8ng license here. This won’t effect us haha seriously, fuck the driving test here.
Ageist and daft, just make it easier for shite drivers to lose the books. Two driving offences of any sort in a year? One year minimum ban. Do it again and it’s a 3 year ban, again and it’s 10 year, again and it’s a life ban. ‘Boo hoo it’s a lifeline’ – it’s a fuckin privilege not a right and if you abuse it, it should be taken away.
Just renewed my license in the US after 5 years and they give you a quick eye test when they’re taking your photo. No need to visit an optometrist for a signature it’s just a machine. Don’t see why we can’t integrate something like that too!
Are they talking about the TV licence…
Good luck to thinking the RSA can pull this off. It’d be like an episode of Father Ted.
There is a lot of Aul ones and Aul lads driving around that really really shouldn’t be. On motorways no less. I do think this is a good idea especially after strokes and heart attacks.
Didn’t the RSA say a few weeks ago they would refuse to implement this?
EU is on a serious power trip. Too much money or simply too much time?
I would personally rather a competency test every 15 years rather than a medical, but every little helps.
Fuck off
A joke altogether. Ireland would love this unfortunately .
If they set that at 40, it would cause absolute mayhem here. GPs are already way over stretched without having to also process driving licence applications for people in their 40s, 50s and 60s ffs.
The 75 limit is perfectly reasonable in my view.
The majority of major accidents here are absolutely not caused by drivers popping their clogs at the wheel while having undiagnosed medical conditions. They’re mostly healthy young guys in their late teens twenties with no cop on or people off their faces on various substances.
There are issues where GPs should proactively intervene where someone’s been diagnosed with certain serious cognitive issues and are unfit to drive – should really be a reporting duty if someone’s going to be a danger. I’ve seen a few issues with that with older drivers – often those occasional wrong-way-driver scenarios, but I mean you can’t just assume that everyone over 40 is likely to have severe cognitive issues, to the point that you’re expecting GPs to fill out paperwork for the whole country every few years.
Yes, please.
I’d say everyone has a story here about the local elderly person who shouldn’t be let near a car ….
Ireland does not have the public transport to support elderly people losing their license.
Oh just fuck off.
I think it’s a good idea, we should have to do a test every few years imo, but the test needs a revamp.
Agreements or disagreements on this specific topic aside. Why the fuck is the EU acting like a country? How does this have anything to do with economic trade alliances?
Everyone talks about age.
I’m only in my 30’s.
I drove in the USA for years, even professionally as a delivery driver.
Moved to Ireland, they didn’t let me exchange my license for one here, I had to do the test and everything as though I had never driven before. This year, I finally passed on my third attempt.
I wish everyone had that humbling experience, and I feel like I’m a lot better of a driver than I was when I left the USA. A good chunk of you have probably picked up a lot of bad habits over the many years, its probably a good idea to recertify every 15 years or so.
I think you should have to do a retest every time you renew your licence. Would never work unfortunately given the backlog here but in some utopian world.
Another money racket
Well now we know why they were wasting tax payers money pushing the idiotic vision zero 2050 campaign it was to get nonsense like this passed the public.
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>MEPs are debating whether to force motorists to pass medical exams if they want to keep their driving licences in the EU.
Before people start going off about how long waiting times are for driving tests are already.
Something is needed anyway, far too many people drive long after they’ve lost the ability to safely do it.
How many countries actually have life long licences. France is 99 years. Ours has to be renewed and can require eye tests.
Who wants to tell old people they can’t drive anymore
Go to any supermarket car park during the working day and wait around a while. It won’t take very long until you spot the people who very obviously should have an assessment for fitness to drive. They will hobble to their car and promptly try to struggle to get out of the space. They may even cut out a few times or struggle to get in to gear to move off.
Why there is objection to this is mind blowing. The proposal is for everyone to be assessed every 15 years and the assessment is for vision, hearing and reaction times. It’s the bare minimum. Even 15 years is an exceptionally long time.
The only counter point is that I suspect that elderly people who may not pass the assessment may not actually be contributing significantly to road deaths but they are contributing to fender benders for sure.
I’m just surprised there are countries like life long driving licences.
Reaction times do go down. So does the ability to scan ahead. Hearing, vision etc.
Makes sense.
Everyone should have to sit the full drivers test every 10 years, so many terrible drivers on the road, it’s the 60 year old men in roundabouts that’s the worst in my opinion, they havnt a clue what to do
Don’t we do this already?
I’m not against this but anything that involves bureaucratic processes and health suffers from endless waiting times here in Ireland
Should be more than a medical check as far as I’m concerned. You should have to sit the test every 10 years when it expires
If you can’t pass it then you shouldn’t be on the road any more than a 20 year old who can’t pass it for the first time
That’s OK, it’s nearly impossible to get any driv8ng license here. This won’t effect us haha seriously, fuck the driving test here.
Ageist and daft, just make it easier for shite drivers to lose the books. Two driving offences of any sort in a year? One year minimum ban. Do it again and it’s a 3 year ban, again and it’s 10 year, again and it’s a life ban. ‘Boo hoo it’s a lifeline’ – it’s a fuckin privilege not a right and if you abuse it, it should be taken away.
Just renewed my license in the US after 5 years and they give you a quick eye test when they’re taking your photo. No need to visit an optometrist for a signature it’s just a machine. Don’t see why we can’t integrate something like that too!
Are they talking about the TV licence…
Good luck to thinking the RSA can pull this off. It’d be like an episode of Father Ted.
There is a lot of Aul ones and Aul lads driving around that really really shouldn’t be. On motorways no less. I do think this is a good idea especially after strokes and heart attacks.
Didn’t the RSA say a few weeks ago they would refuse to implement this?
EU is on a serious power trip. Too much money or simply too much time?
I would personally rather a competency test every 15 years rather than a medical, but every little helps.
Fuck off
A joke altogether. Ireland would love this unfortunately .
If they set that at 40, it would cause absolute mayhem here. GPs are already way over stretched without having to also process driving licence applications for people in their 40s, 50s and 60s ffs.
The 75 limit is perfectly reasonable in my view.
The majority of major accidents here are absolutely not caused by drivers popping their clogs at the wheel while having undiagnosed medical conditions. They’re mostly healthy young guys in their late teens twenties with no cop on or people off their faces on various substances.
There are issues where GPs should proactively intervene where someone’s been diagnosed with certain serious cognitive issues and are unfit to drive – should really be a reporting duty if someone’s going to be a danger. I’ve seen a few issues with that with older drivers – often those occasional wrong-way-driver scenarios, but I mean you can’t just assume that everyone over 40 is likely to have severe cognitive issues, to the point that you’re expecting GPs to fill out paperwork for the whole country every few years.
Yes, please.
I’d say everyone has a story here about the local elderly person who shouldn’t be let near a car ….
Ireland does not have the public transport to support elderly people losing their license.
Oh just fuck off.
I think it’s a good idea, we should have to do a test every few years imo, but the test needs a revamp.
Agreements or disagreements on this specific topic aside. Why the fuck is the EU acting like a country? How does this have anything to do with economic trade alliances?
Everyone talks about age.
I’m only in my 30’s.
I drove in the USA for years, even professionally as a delivery driver.
Moved to Ireland, they didn’t let me exchange my license for one here, I had to do the test and everything as though I had never driven before. This year, I finally passed on my third attempt.
I wish everyone had that humbling experience, and I feel like I’m a lot better of a driver than I was when I left the USA. A good chunk of you have probably picked up a lot of bad habits over the many years, its probably a good idea to recertify every 15 years or so.
I think you should have to do a retest every time you renew your licence. Would never work unfortunately given the backlog here but in some utopian world.
Another money racket
Well now we know why they were wasting tax payers money pushing the idiotic vision zero 2050 campaign it was to get nonsense like this passed the public.