It is now possible to approve your automatic gearbox license and move on to manual gearbox training without delay. According to a decree of February 15, the three-month period initially provided between obtaining a driving license with an automatic transmission and participating in a training aimed at transforming it into a manual transmission is eliminated, Road Safety specifies in a statement.
Modified manual gearbox training
The organization also specifies that this 7-hour training course for driving with manual transmission is evolving. “In this way, the duration of training in the driving simulator is doubled, which was previously limited to one hour,” the decree reads.
Another change, according to the statement: “it is no longer necessary to wait for the issuance of the driving license to be able to drive a vehicle with a manual gearbox: the driving license and the certificate proving the ability to drive is sufficient. “
This manual gearbox training includes two parts: a theoretical part in the vehicle to understand and understand how the manual gearbox works and 5 hours of driving (one of them possible in a simulator, and therefore up to 2 according to the decree February 15). according to the website of online licensing specialist Ornikar. At the end of the training, the young driver receives a certificate to transform his automatic gearbox permit (B78 according to his code name) into a classic B permit.
More than one in four young people convert their automatic transmission license
Pour justifier la suppression de ce délai de 3 mois, la sécurité routière met avant la hausse du nombre de jeunes qui passent le permis boite auto, moins gourmand en nombre d’heures de conduite, avec de plus en plus de véhicules equipés également sur the routes. Is this also a way to make the permit a little cheaper, favoring a faster transition from the permit with automatic gearbox to the classic B permit?
According to Road Safety, last year, 28% of self-driving license holders followed this 7-hour training course to convert their license.
Source: BFM TV
