Since July 1, driving license candidates must demonstrate that they know how to use on -board assistance systems, both in theory and in practice. For example, they must familiarize themselves with the tempomat.
This is new: the Confederation now requires that candidates for driving license for passenger cars and motorcycles be assessed, in theory as in practice, on their mastery of driving assistance technologies. Among them: the lane maintenance assistant, the blind spot warning or the cruise control and distance regulator.
These changes aim to better prepare new drivers for the reality of modern vehicles. Since last summer, new vehicles sold in Switzerland and built in series must be equipped with these new technologies.
Useful technology, but not infallible
Two weeks before his practical examination, Donovan, a driver’s pupil interviewed Wednesday in the 12:45 am RTS, believes that these devices can be precious: “The cruise control, especially in cities, is almost everywhere limited to 30km/h. It is quite useful, it allows me not to exceed the speed”.
Nevertheless, these devices do not replace the vigilance of the driver, warns his instructor, Kamel Douihou.
“The car does not know if it is wet, snowy or icy. It is not completely reliable, not at all.”, He said.
TV subject: Marion Tinguely
Adaptation web: Miroslav Mares
