Driver’s license at 17: a measure that pleases everyone… except driving schools

2023-06-20 20:50:22

Ride youth! From January 2024, learner drivers with their Highway Code in their pocket will be able, from the age of 17, to take the practical test and then start, if they pass the exam, alone at the wheel of a car. This rejuvenation, announced by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne this Tuesday, June 20 in an interview with the online media Brutis historic because the minimum age has been set at 18 for more than a century in France (1922 precisely, when the certificate of ability to drive was previously reserved for those over 21)!