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Home » News from Thailand » Driver's license: Extra lesson of an hour should make traffic safer
Driver's license: Extra lesson of an hour should make traffic safer
From 1 January, anyone applying for a driver's license must take a total of 5 hours of road safety lessons. The Land Transport Department hopes this will reduce the number of traffic accidents.
Whether that will work is the question. The roads in Thailand are known as the most deadly in the world.
The lessons are currently four hours long. An extra hour is added that is spent on topics such as: what to do in emergency situations and how to drive safely. The total theory lesson program for the driver's license consists of lessons on the traffic laws, safe driving behavior, driving etiquette and first aid.
Drivers whose driving license expires after a year must also take the new course. The lessons are given by the LTD, certified driving schools and a number of government departments.
Source: Bangkok Post
It would be good to also add an extra lesson: HOW DO I MAINTENANCE MY CAR, with topics such as maintenance, inspection (which should be much better, if I experience what this means in this country), the use of the lighting and the adjustment of these, Not using fog lights unless there is real fog, Using turn signals. Checking whether all lamps are still working, ALSO the brake lights. Checking whether there is still enough profile on the tires and using the correct tire pressure, although that is difficult because where can you find a tension meter? The correct adjustment of the (diesel) engine so that it no longer blows black smoke, even with government vehicles, this occurs extensively. And there are more points for attention for an extra lesson.
yes, good, but don't drive a meter in a car. The theory is good for playing with your phone, doing business or .. sleeping. But there is no driving outside, the practical exam is on a closed circuit, without fellow or oncoming traffic.
After driving around here for 20 years with my Thai driver's license, I don't think the extra hour will help. The mentality has to change, and that is not possible with an extra hour of lessons.
An extra hour of driving lessons does not make traffic safer as long as most people disregard traffic rules and behave antisocially.
Been driving around here for a while now and gained some experience.
Namely, if your traffic light turns green, wait another 4 seconds.
You will see that at least 4 cars and 12 mopeds are still driving through the red light.
Never drive close to a stationary car, 9 out of 10 times the door will fly open.
Through the blinded windows you cannot see what a driver of a car is doing,
Just count on him/her not looking.
Pre-sorting, watch out for you, is then in the way for people who want to overtake.
I can go on like this for a while.
I don't think an hour will fix that.
But the beginning is there.
You have nothing to do with that hour anymore,
as long as there are kids and people driving around without a driver's license.
When they really want to have fewer accidents ,
the police should start to protect children under the age of 15
and people without a motorcycle license
(they are keen mopeds but small engines that easily go 100 km)
to get . I think that then the number of accidents will be much less .
A good solution would be to teach traffic in schools. Just a few years, 1 hour a week of traffic lessons. Perhaps playfully at first, but then more and more seriously.
After school, take lessons at a driving school for a moped certificate. Then, after a good result, the certificate with a penalty points scheme. If you get too many penalty points, go back to the driving school. After 2 years of driving without any problems, you can get your driving license. Then – hopefully – the number of road deaths (moped-related) will also decrease.
Everything they do now on a moped, they will do in a few years in the car. Overtaking as if it were a game, turning onto the road without looking, seeing displacement areas as “overtaking areas” etc.
I seriously hope that this one hour lesson will make a big difference, but I'm afraid not ;-(
@,
“”AFTER ME THE FLOOD””
In my opinion, something between the ears needs to change.
Coming down a street with an emergency and really not even a mm. check to the right if the lane is clear.
You shouldn't even think about driving into it or even worse, driving over it.
You will never lose that in your life.
We have become accustomed to most of the antics of the Thai (and yes, sometimes also of the farang), but sometimes you still get scared when another kamikaze driver comes racing around the corner.
LOUISE
As foreigners/outsiders, we will certainly not unlearn the Thai's habits/misbehaviors in traffic. This will have to come from (Thai) higher up…. And that costs money and effort. You guessed it: “NO HAVE.”
First a strict police check for traffic violations….. Then a thorough driver's license exam and then hit the road.
But by then our generation will be gone.
There is only one solution for everything that has been commented on here. The police have to issue a lot of fines, remove cars from the road that are no good, hang cameras at intersections at traffic lights and hand out fat fines to those who run a red light, etc. If the Thai has to pay, things will suddenly change in traffic! Also wrong parking and driving on the right on the receipt. I so love doing that job lol.
Police? Three months ago I parked the car properly on the left side of the road and in the right direction. The next day I see a cousin of the family driving backwards and the maid has to give him instructions. I can see all this from the balcony. Go down and see a dent in the front fender in my car; I decide not to do or say anything. I will check regularly to see if he has come back. When I come back I look at the back of the pick_up. He also has damage but his car is more of a rust bucket. My damage is an imprint of his rear. I decide to call him and ask what happened. He knows nothing. What else did I expect. So let's start looking at the images from the security camera. Ben kept looking for 15 minutes but then left, he had to call me if he found something. He couldn't remember what time he had come back that night. I knew why he didn't remember. Around noon his aunt comes to ask me what happened. I tell about the damage. When I say I know it was him and therefore needed the help in the morning the maid.
A Thai answer. Why did you park the car there? The perpetrator is a policeman in CM and didn't even have insurance. And who should stop me?
The car has been repaired at the expense of Tachnakart insurance. Aunt made a fool of something I don't know yet. The Thais are honest. An apology was enough for me. But the end of the story is for later
I always beat myself up about it too. But since about four years I started driving the same as the Thai and wonderfully my stress level has decreased proportionally to my cholesterol level
Gain theory and, in particular, sufficient practical experience in 5 hours (without road experience)? Do not make me laugh.
Since looking ahead is not one of the strengths of Thais (not only in traffic), it remains extremely dangerous. Solid (double) line on the road? Overtaking before a bend? Here in Chiangmai, driving down mountain roads with your foot on the brake, so that - if it is really necessary - it no longer works.
Orange stop light? Accelerate. Red traffic light? Accelerate even more.
The police must act much more and much more consistently: lights, wearing helmets, everyone in a car, seat belts, etc. And for violations, not a fine of TBH 200-300, but TBH 1.000-2000. Then the nonchalant/kamikaze behavior quickly ends.
But that's vain hope. So it is indeed advisable to drive very conservatively when participating in traffic here and especially to look far ahead.
Hello.
Is this new rule only for people who don't have a driver's license yet??
I want to apply for a Thai driver's license in early January.
I have a Dutch and an international driver's license. Do I have to undergo a driving lesson of 5 hours.
Or is this line not planned for farang.
Please provide an appropriate answer.
For example, thank you very much.
Gr Ari
You can't really call a joke 5 hours of lessons.
Harmen, that is theoretical class and you have to get 90% correct on your theoretical exam