Contents of the review:
- Foreign experience
- Europe
- USA
- Other countries
- Fear of death and human age
- Will raising the age help to restore order on the roads?
In Russia, at present, a driver's license can be obtained at the age of 18, and for driving light motorcycles and mopeds - at 16. But more recently, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation proposed to issue a license upon reaching the age of 21, and this proposal generated a lot of controversy in various media and Internet resources. ... The Ministry of Health itself motivates this by the fact that, allegedly until the age of 21, there is no sense of danger, that is, the feeling that a person may suddenly die. “That is why we are talking about the fact that the right to drive a car must be given no earlier than 21 years old, when the fear of death appears,” said Zurab Kekelidze, a freelance specialist of the Russian Ministry of Health on psychiatry. What about the age of obtaining a driver's license in other countries? Let's see!
Foreign experience
Europe
In European countries, there is now a trend towards a decrease in the age of obtaining a driver's license. Here are some statistics:
From 17 years old - Great Britain, Italy, Ireland, Serbia, Slovakia, Hungary, Indonesia, Malaysia and others;
From the age of 16 - in Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, Israel, Estonia and about a dozen other countries.
USA
This is a kind of record holder for reducing the age under discussion, because in many states (Alaska, Dakota, North Carolina, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, and a number of others), you can drive a car after reaching the age of 14. Other states have different restrictions, but none of the states exceed 16 years.
Some other countries
In New Zealand, for example, in order to just start learning to drive, you must first pass a special test, after the successful completion of which the student receives student rights. With these rights, he drives under the supervision of adult drivers for six months, then gets limited rights and finally, again after six months, the so-called full rights.
In Turkey, rights can be obtained from the age of 17, but only for category "A" or "H". In category "B" or "G" - from 18 years old, and in "C", "D" or "E" - from 22 years old.
As we can see, each country has its own rules and in some places it is quite difficult to obtain these very rights. Somewhere, like in the UAE, an international driver's license is valid, and somewhere, like in China, you need to get a local one. Now about the psychological aspect of obtaining rights.
Fear of death and human age
"The awareness of one's finitude, that one can die, as a rule, is not formed." “At 18, a person does not know that death is a departure from life,” insists the aforementioned Zurab Kekelidze.
It is clear that in children aged 5 or even 10 years, the awareness of death as the cessation of the body's vital activity is completely absent. At such a tender age, they cannot understand and even imagine that it can happen that you once ... and no longer exist. But in the case of 18-year-olds, you can argue about whether they have this fear of death or not.
Let us recall, by the way, that it is from this age in our country and in other countries that the conscription into the armed forces begins. This age is considered by many to be the age of majority. Of course, people are different, some even at the age of 25 realize little. Yes, what can I say, nowadays we come across 35-year-old specimens, in which, apart from the wind, nothing is found in their heads. Almost all teachers like to say that education comes entirely from the family and in principle you cannot argue with this statement, except that now, in many cases, the street and the Internet are engaged in the education of future drivers.
Will raising the age for obtaining a license help to put things in order on the roads?
From all of the above, it can be concluded that raising the age of issue of rights is of course justified, since the likelihood that the rights will go to a fully-fledged, formed personality somewhat increases. But this is not enough!
To be somewhat sure that some potential murderer or just a psychologically unbalanced person will not get the rights, you need to try to introduce special, mandatory testing, as a result of which the rights will be issued.
In Germany, for example, there is a so-called "idiot test", which is a test of whether the subject has logical thinking. And no matter in this case, how well a person knows the traffic rules, did not pass the test - he did not receive the right. It looks too radical, of course, but you can't give a weapon to just anyone, even if he knows how to handle it well. After all, the car does not control itself - where it turned, it will go there, just like the pistol - wherever it is directed, the bullet will fly there.
Naturally, raising the age for obtaining a license cannot give one hundred percent guarantee that there is order on the roads. In any case, the use of any one measure will not give the desired effect. Only a set of solutions can give a definite positive result.
