7 billion neighbors

Learning to drive, still a real hassle?

Audio 48:30

Traffic in the city center of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, July 2016. RFI / Leonora Baumann

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

Exorbitant prices, interminable waiting times, almost a one in two chance of failing the exam, in France, the driving license is often the subject of anxious discussions among learner drivers.

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About 1.5 million people take the exam each year in France, making the driving license the most important exam in terms of the number of candidates.

Some will bet on accompanied driving when others will prefer to give up, seeing the bills accumulate.

But why is it so complicated to get a driver's license?

What are the different techniques for learning to drive?

And should we relearn driving throughout our lives?  

With : 

- Julien Danault Mbounga

, founder and president of the

Cisal

association , road safety NGO 

- Stéphane Massard

, totally independent driving school teacher in Angers who has

Ornikar  as a client

- Fabi Jaglard

, driving school teacher in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.

And at the end of the program, the chronicle of psychologist Ibrahima Giroux,

Parents, children, from here and elsewhere

: When childhood professionals make the wrong diagnosis of school problems 

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A weekly meeting to help parents.

Ibrahima Giroux is a psychologist in Dakar, Senegal.

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Jah Prayzah

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