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New bill to obtain a driver's license in Brazil poses a new challenge: driving lessons can only be taken in automatic and electric cars! 

Written by Valdemar Medeiros
Published 23/12/2024 ร s 10:47
Updated 25/12/2024 ร s 12:33
New law for renewing and obtaining a driver's license in Brazil poses a new challenge: driving lessons can only be taken in automatic and electric cars!
Photo: Brazilian driver's license/generated by AI

A new bill could revolutionize the process of obtaining a driverโ€™s license, bringing significant changes to traffic rules. The proposal aims to modify driving lessons, requiring them to be taken in automatic and electric vehicles. If approved, this measure promises to modernize the training of new drivers, aligning it with the most sustainable and practical technologies on the market.

A new bill proposes significant changes to the process of obtaining National Driving License (CNH). The proposal includes the possibility of automatic and electric vehicles being used in practical driving lessons, bringing more modernity and accessibility to the training of new drivers. In addition, the project foresees the introduction of a mandatory traffic education course, reinforcing the importance of safety and awareness behind the wheel. These changes aim to adapt the licensing process to technological innovations of the automotive sector and promote driver training more in line with current needs.

Understand the details revealed so far about the new bill for driving lessons

In progress at Senate, the bill was authored by Senator Teresa Leitรฃo (PT-PE). In the first case, Teresa justifies that electric and automatic cars can be used in practical classes from a market perspective, considering that the majority of new cars currently offered in Brazil are automatic and electric cars are included in this account.

Thus, with the new law for obtaining a driver's license, candidates who will have more contact with automatic cars could already learn in a similar one. According to the author to the Senate Agency, there is currently no possibility of using it for learning purposes, given that up until now there has been no regulation by the highest executive traffic authority.

Em other points of the bill on driving lessons, the author proposes the creation of a mandatory traffic education course for obtaining a driver's license. For her, traffic education should be a public safety policy that must be effective in protecting the physical integrity of Brazilian citizens and an efficient public policy for training citizens in the exercise of their citizenship.

Understand how the new law will work to obtain a driver's license

With the new law for obtaining a driver's license, the course in question must cover, among other topics, traffic laws, defensive driving, basic first aid instructions, notions of citizenship and concepts of environmental protection related to traffic. Teresa Leitรฃo justifies the bill with the increase in traffic accidents.

๐Ÿ‘‰ Check out the Senate text by clicking here

According to the text, there is currently no possibility of using electric and automatic vehicles for learning purposes, in driving lessons, since to date there has been no regulation by the highest executive traffic authority.

The production of vehicles with automatic transmission currently represents more than 70% of the national volume, according to the senator, highlighting the need for classes with automatic vehicles taking into account the authorization of this type of transmission in recent years.

In many countries around the world, traffic authorities differentiate between vehicles with manual and automatic transmissions when granting driving licenses. In the United Kingdom, Japan and Germany, for example, there are driving lessons and a specific license for those who pass the test in an automatic car. Passing the test in a manual car gives the driver the advantage of being able to drive vehicles with both types of transmission.

Another Bill for Driving Lessons

In addition to the senator, a new bill, presented by senator Eduardo Gomes (MDB-TO), allows drivers to drive only automatic cars. In addition, the new law for obtaining a driver's license prohibits drivers licensed in this category from driving cars with manual transmission. 

In short, the new PL would change the Traffic Code, meaning that those who wish to obtain a driver's license for an automatic car would have the right to choose to take the driving test in a car with automatic transmission, always in accordance with the terms of the National Traffic Council.

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Marta
Marta
23/12/2024 15:44

What's the point of getting drivers up to speed with new technologies if it's already difficult to buy a popular car!

Marquilano Francisco da Silva
Marquilano Francisco da Silva
In reply to  Marta
24/12/2024 07:44

These sons of bitches have nothing better to do, so they keep creating fashion just to screw with our lives, instead of you getting a single driver's license, no, these criminals want to create fashion to ruin the Brazilian people even more, tell me where a poor person can get an automatic car, where even a popular car is expensive.

Luis
Luis
In reply to  Marquilano Francisco da Silva
24/12/2024 09:51

So, for us, nothing changes, whoever switches to manual transmission can drive any vehicle, the rule only applies to those who only want the automatic.

Saul
Saul
In reply to  Luis
25/12/2024 01:20

No. They want anyone who gets a manual car to only drive a manual car. And for automatic cars, it will be a different license.

Mark
Mark
In reply to  Marquilano Francisco da Silva
24/12/2024 16:18

Nowadays, it is easy for people of any social class to buy an automatic car, just don't buy a brand new one, buy a semi-new one but at an affordable price...

Alex
Alex
In reply to  Mark
25/12/2024 23:51

You have **** in your head
Your ****

Elaine
Elaine
In reply to  Mark
26/12/2024 07:09

Seriously? Easy for whom??? Just don't buy a new car??? Are you taking away the ability of any person to have a new car just to satisfy those who want to take more money from the consumer???? And an automatic car is as dangerous as the other one or even more, because the reaction and starting power is much lower. You need more space to be able to overtake, for example, than a car of the same power with a normal transmission. Have you ever driven both types of cars???? It seems not....

Bruno Joseph
Bruno Joseph
In reply to  Mark
26/12/2024 15:38

Enzo from Alphaville, are you sure you live in Brazil?

Laertius
Laertius
In reply to  Marquilano Francisco da Silva
24/12/2024 17:03

I want to see how they're going to apply the law to a **** when he steals the car... lol, the person who's drafting the bill has nothing to do or is already looking to set up a company to take advantage...

Eli
Eli
In reply to  Laertius
25/12/2024 11:52

When some **** proposes a law of this type, it is because he has business with the sector interested in its approval, which will profit from the law.

cleiton
cleiton
In reply to  Marquilano Francisco da Silva
25/12/2024 04:28

Getting your driver's license in an automatic car becomes easier because of the clutch, it doesn't mean the driver has to buy an automatic car.

Rocha
Rocha
In reply to  cleiton
25/12/2024 23:59

You get your license in an automatic car, but how are you going to drive a manual car?
Going back to driving school lol
Today you can drive an automatic car even with a B license.
She wants to force you to get another license, is she joking?

Fernando
Fernando
In reply to  cleiton
26/12/2024 09:32

I think you didn't read the proposal properly. If you get your driver's license with an automatic transmission, you can only drive a car with an automatic transmission.

Andreia Viana
Andreia Viana
In reply to  cleiton
26/12/2024 09:42

But you can only drive an automatic car.

Eli
Eli
In reply to  Marquilano Francisco da Silva
25/12/2024 11:49

We are hostages of these scoundrels. Remember the mandatory fire extinguisher that was much more expensive? They stole our money and now someone decided it is no longer necessary. What about the first aid kit? How many people were fined for not having one in their vehicle, until someone decided it was useless.

Fernando
Fernando
In reply to  Eli
26/12/2024 09:37

And the first aid kit, which they forced us to buy, was soon released. In other words, they made us spend money only to change everything again, and we are the ones who suffer the loss.

Claudio Pereira
Claudio Pereira
In reply to  Marquilano Francisco da Silva
25/12/2024 14:23

They want to create difficulties to sell facilities, **** of miserable people

Givanildo
Givanildo
In reply to  Marquilano Francisco da Silva
25/12/2024 16:00

Besides, the value of the driver's license will increase, because driving schools will buy more modern cars.

Elรณi
Elรณi
In reply to  Marta
26/12/2024 13:12

It's difficult for those who don't save money or have a bad credit history and can only save or buy pre-owned items.

Ronald
Ronald
23/12/2024 16:02

But what a senseless bill, a person who learns to drive an automatic car will not be able to drive a manual, but a driver who learns to drive a manual can drive anything. And normally in reality for a Brazilian, the first car is always a used car and in 90% of the cases a manual car.

Abraao
Abraao
In reply to  Ronald
23/12/2024 23:00

Well, this new bill will only make things more difficult, because those who are getting their first driver's license will barely be able to buy a popular car, let alone an automatic car.

Last edited 24 days ago by Abraham
Marquilano Francisco da Silva
Marquilano Francisco da Silva
In reply to  Abraao
24/12/2024 07:51

I don't doubt the Brazilian people, because we are warriors and we never give up, our only problem is that in our government there are only marginalized people and we never win one for them, because of them we all end up in poverty, Brazil has not become a Venezuela, because we are warriors and we never stop fighting, if it were for them we wouldn't even have ****.

IZAILDO Moraes
IZAILDO Moraes
In reply to  Abraao
25/12/2024 20:26

That's true...things are just getting more complicated...

Marla
Marla
In reply to  Ronald
24/12/2024 10:17

I learned to drive a manual car, but now I only drive an automatic car. I honestly don't know how to drive a manual car anymore.

Ramos
Ramos
In reply to  Marla
24/12/2024 17:52

So, my friend, I'm sorry, but you don't know how to drive anymore. And, you learned to drive cars, and now you only drive means of transport...

Edson
Edson
In reply to  Marla
24/12/2024 18:22

So you have a serious Alzheimer's problem.

Helm V. Almeida
Helm V. Almeida
In reply to  Marla
24/12/2024 21:08

Maria do Rosรกrio, can only

Alex
Alex
In reply to  Marla
25/12/2024 23:54

You are very ****

Josรฉ
Josรฉ
In reply to  Marla
26/12/2024 11:52

Haha ...

Edson
Edson
In reply to  Ronald
24/12/2024 18:18

Coming from where it comes from, it's nothing new.

Valdemar Medeiros

Journalist in training, specialist in creating content with a focus on SEO actions. Writes about the Automotive Industry, Renewable Energy and Science and Technology

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