“Completely different perception of traffic than 20 years ago” – learner drivers are failing more and more frequently
Created: 2023-01-09 13:42
By: Christoph Sahler
The number of driving license tests in Germany is increasing, and with it the failure rate for practical driving tests.
Frankfurt – Evil tongues in Frankfurt claim that Offenbach cannot drive a car.
Therefore, some people - at least in southern Hesse - are likely to rub their eyes in amazement.
Because only in Rhineland-Palatinate (25.4%) and Bavaria (26%) do fewer learner drivers fail the practical driving test than in Hesse (26.1%) - adding a wink: including Offenbach.
The figures are based on a study by the Federal Motor Transport Authority for the year 2021. The nationwide trend shows that more and more learner drivers are failing the practical driving test.
The Vice-Chairman of the Federal Union of Driving Instructor Associations, Kurt Bartels, also provides a possible reason, reports fnp.de.
Bartel explains to the
ADAC
: “The young person who comes to driving school today has a completely different perception of traffic than 20 years ago – namely a lower one.” In the car, children would mainly look at their smartphones instead of watching the traffic.
This is why young people no longer have the “natural affinity for traffic events that they used to have”.
In Germany, more and more learner drivers fail the practical driving test.
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Hessians are less likely to fail the practical driving test than the national average
The fact is: in 2012 the Germany-wide failure rate in practical driving tests was still 26%, in 2021 it rose to 29.7%.
If you only look at the exams for the class B driver's license, the percentage of learner drivers who failed is as high as 43%.
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Most people in Hamburg fail the practical driving test (45%), followed by Bremen (39.4%) and Berlin (38.3%).
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Joachim Bühler, Managing Director of the TÜV Association, also sees smartphone use as a problem, but also attributes the increasing failure rate to increasingly complex road traffic with more and more vehicles.
(csa)
By January 2033, almost 43 million driving licenses will lose their validity in Germany.