Clipping of news on Brazilian Culture, Law and Citizenship
11/2/2010
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(Source: Folha de S. Paulo, for Andreza Matias)
The Autoescolas have to teach new drivers to drive at night. The evening classes will be mandatory as project approved on Wednesday (10) by the Senate and goes to presidential approval.
It is for Contran (National Traffic Council) set the hours of evening classes. Today, it takes 20 hours of professional instruction and 45 hours of classroom instruction. Although the recommendation already exists in resolution, there is no requirement for driving lessons in the evening.
The author of the project, Mr Celso Russomano (PP-SP), said it is possible to introduce the evening classes within the existing timetable, but the decision should rest with the Contran, you can set an increase in the number of hours practice.
A spokesperson for the agency, attached to the Ministry of Cities, said yesterday that it supports the project, but how it is implemented is still under discussion.
The goal, according to the author of the proposal is to prevent people take a driver's license without even knowing turn on the light of the car. "The roads are congested during the day because people are afraid to drive at night. Why not learn. To drive the boat and plane must take classes at night. Car is the same thing," said Russomano.
The Federal Highway Police found a valuable initiative, but said the best would be to require new drivers to learn driving on roads. It said most accidents occur during the day because the flow of vehicles is higher. Every year, 7.000 people die on roads in Brazil and there are about 130 thousand accidents.
Specialist transport and professor at UNB (University of Brasilia), Joaquim Aragão said he did not know a single country that has this requirement and that we must be wary of new rules. Inventing things based on absolvido not think right. Based on the finding that learning in autoescola driving at night will prevent accidents? Study never seen that effect, "he said.
Russomano said he came onto the project after realizing that most people close to him fear driving at night.
Maguinelson Carlos de Souza, the National Federation of Autoescolas also estimated that the law should be harmless because enforcement is difficult. He said it was necessary to make the practical test more rigorous, but it would force Autoescolas to prepare new drivers to drive and not just to pass the practical test.
Source: Portal Idec
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