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"In accordance with the provisions of the European Driving License Directive, we will regulate a new B1 driving license from the age of 16 for electric vehicles with a maximum speed of 90 km/h and a maximum weight of 400 kg. It is already in application in countries like France with good results and will favor the mobility of the youngest in rural areas where, even with all possible efforts, public transport obviously does not arrive in the same conditions as in more urban environments.And it also means guaranteeing equality in the exercise of the rights of our young people in rural areas".

In this way, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has announced that 16-year-olds will have a special driving license to be able to drive electric quadricycles that are more affordable and have sufficient autonomy for intercity trips. they do daily.

Young people must pass an exam to have this new license.

ROAD SAFETY STRATEGY 2020-2030

The minister has made this announcement in the framework of the presentation of the new Road Safety Strategy 2020-2030 whose objective is to reduce by half the 1,755 deaths and the 8,613 seriously injured in traffic accidents that occurred in 2019. "Year of point starting point of the study given that Covid arrived in 2020 and it is of no use to us", as Pere Navarro, director of the DGT, recalled.

This objective of reducing the number of deaths by 50% is in line with the challenge set by both the United Nations and the European Union

According to Grande-Marlaska, the new strategy has been designed in four biannual periods to "be a flexible project that will allow it to adapt to the changes that will take place in safe and sustainable mobility."

One of these changes, the minister recalled, is that "the EU will be the first region in the world to be CO2 neutral and reduce emissions by 55% compared to 1990. If the EU's forecasts are met, diesel and gasoline cars will not be able to be sold as of January 1, 2035."

BIENNIAL PLAN 2022-2023

Within the first biennial plan 2022-2023, Grande-Marlaska detailed several more lines of action, in addition to the introduction of the new permit by points.

In the first place, "the incorporation of safe and sustainable mobility education in the school curriculum. For the first time in the history of our country, the LOMLOE includes training in safe and sustainable mobility in the school curriculum. It will be applied progressively to starting next school year.

Continuing with education, it is also this first period, another measure will be "the start-up of the title of Higher Technician in Safe and Sustainable Mobility in Professional Training already created. Next autumn the first courses will begin to train the professions that need".

The safe and efficient mobility courses will also be consolidated, which "with the reform of the Traffic Law allows you to recover 2 points from the card for taking these courses."

The minister also recalled the specific courses for workers who use motorcycles.

For motorcycle users, another measure is the mandatory use of the airbag for the A permit exams, that is, high-capacity motorcycles.

"We are committed to promoting the airbag for motorists who use high displacement motorcycles."

MOTORCYCLE AIRBAG

The minister also announced that "after the corresponding market prospecting process, we will shortly put out to tender the general acquisition of airbags for the agents of the Civil Guard Traffic group".

"Another initiative will be to promote exams with automatic transmission in passenger cars. At present, 98% of the exams are done with manual transmission. We will modify the regulations for drivers to promote and facilitate the use of vehicles with automatic gear changes in order to familiarize new drivers with the electric vehicle," said Grande-Marlaska.

Modern electric vehicles do not have a manual transmission.

HARDER PSYCHOTECHNICAL

On the other hand, another measure will be the review and update "of the protocol for psychophysical aptitude tests in the medical examination centers for drivers, unchanged since 2007. Fifteen years later, as has happened with the points card, we believe that that reasonable period for that review," according to the minister.

Also from the Ministry of the Interior, cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants will be helped to prepare to implement the low-emission areas on a mandatory basis from January 1, 2023 and the traffic regulations will be reformed for the protection of users. vulnerable and "we will regulate compulsory civil liability insurance" regarding the use of personal mobility vehicles (VMP).

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