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EU wants over 70s to prove they can still drive every five years (www.brusselstimes.com)
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The European Union wants elderly people (70+) to undergo medical tests from now on to prove that they are still capable of driving a car every five years. However, the proposal has been met with a lot of criticism.

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[–] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Other way around. The US can define some requirements that foreign licenses must fulfill to be valid in the US. In Europe with way smaller countries, such per-country approval would get ridiculous quite quickly, so they decided to make EU licenses that are valid everywhere, and for that they need some common requirements that every country must fulfill

[–] neuromancer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And each country get to decide things like the legal age, this isn't decided by the EU, and each country also get to decide if they accept driver younger than the limit age in their country, so no a license is just valid anywhere without restrictions.

[–] azuth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They can increase or lower the legal age of their own licenses but they have to recognize licenses of other EU states that are lower than their own legal age but but above the EU legal age. Other EU member states do not have to recognize the lower legal age licenses, though they can.

This of course is decided by the EU for EU member states.

Your EU license is also valid in the US, doesn’t mean you get to dictate US law.

I doubt it is true, US licenses without an IDP are not permitted in the EU and while many small rentals will rent to US tourists if those tourists get involved in an accident or otherwise have to produce a license to the authorities.. it won't go well.

doesn’t mean you get to dictate US law.

That would be because the US is not an EU member.

[–] neuromancer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_driving_licence

It is up to each member state to accept foreign licenses with younger ages than the local minimum age of acquisition.

It is obliviously not decided by the EU, it's decided by local law.