Germany is one of those countries where you can incur a driving situation (tickets)....and you lose your license for a month very easily. Under the old rule book, if you went 31 kph above the limit in a urban area or 41 kph in a rural area....that was an entire month without the license.
You'd get a letter in the mail, which you could challenge. The details of the letter were....you were caught doing this speed....here's the fine, and by the way.....sometime in the next two months, you need to visit the local police station and hand over your license for one month.
Well....I noticed today via N-TV....there's been a change in the book of regulations, and there's a new problem.
They set the new limits....if you are 21 kph over the limit in urban areas, or 31 kph in rural areas.....you lose the license.
A lot of negative hype has occurred.
Since the rule went into effect 28 April.....11k Germans have been notified of a license loss situation.
This has drawn political frustration from various German politicians, and there's some discussion that the regulation has to be 'undone'.
The odds of them hitting 40k license losses by 1 January? I'd give it pretty good odds. In fact, some folks might be on their second license loss for the year by Christmas.
Because you can pick the one-month period to some degree....some folks are timing this to occur with their summer vacation. Others are working out some deal with their co-workers for rides. And others are looking at public transportation (in the Covid-chaos).
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