“Complete embarrassment”: compulsory testing for drivers over 70? Experts agree on one point. Everyone should check their own ability to drive before setting off.
According to Stefanie Schmid from the Tölz driving license authority, age plays a minor role. Voluntary returns of driving licenses are extremely rare. Three annual cases are already considered common; there are years “in which no purely voluntary waiver is made at all” In most cases, a loss of driving license is the result of an action by the driving licence authority or the public prosecutor's office.