New requirements
Drivers students must master assistance systems
Care regulator, assistant to maintain track: these technologies are now part of the Swiss permit examination. Useful, but not infallible copilotes.
However, conducting professionals tempered the enthusiasm that these electronic assistance could arouse.
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- Applicants must now master assistance systems to obtain their license.
- New vehicles in Switzerland are necessarily equipped with assistance technologies.
- The regulator particularly helps to respect the limitations in urban areas.
- Monitors alert to the limits of electronic assistance systems.
From the 1stis July, candidates for driving license in Switzerland must demonstrate their mastery driving assistance systemsboth during the theoretical and practical exam. This new requirement applies to permits for passenger cars and motorcycles, forcing drivers students to familiarize themselves with technologies such as the cruise control (tempomat), the assistant to maintain track or the blindness of blindness.
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This regulatory development aims to adapt the training of drivers to the technological reality of modern vehicles. It follows the obligation, established last summer, to equip all new vehicles sold in Switzerland with these assistance technologies.
For students who are currently in training, this development represents additional learning. A license candidate, Interviewed by RTS Two weeks before its practical exam, recognizes the usefulness of these devices: “The cruise control is quite useful to me and allows me not to exceed speed, especially with the limits to 30 km/h increasingly frequent in town.”
Driving professionals, however, temperate the enthusiasm that these electronic assistance systems could arouse. A driving school instructor quoted in the RTS report warns against excessive confidence: “The car does not know if the road is wet, snowy or icy. It is not completely reliable. ”
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