Last week, I essayed a piece over disgruntled Germans being negative about the new regulations for speeding in Germany.
The basic story was that after 28 April, if you were 20 kph over the limit within urban areas....you lost your license for a month. Prior to that, it was 30 kph over the limit to lose the license in the cities. In rural areas, 30 kph over the limit became the new problem....to lose your license.
Well...a lot of hype came up.
Yesterday, the authorities finally said enough....all this lost license business is cancelled with the 28 April regulation. They go back to the old standard.
HR (my regional public TV network) covered a good bit of this and is worth reading.
The consequence left? Well...the points stay, as does the fine.
Now, I should note.....this is a Hessen change, and it doesn't mean other states handle it the same way. But if you live in Hessen, this is the state standard of the Federal regulation. Again, it's a state-by-state decision at play.
Somewhere in the middle of this, I suspect a couple of highly-placed political folks got the license-lost letters and got hyped up to resolve this mess in a hurry. But that's simply my speculation on this.
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