The news struck like a bang from an exhaust pipe earlier this week. That the age limit for A-tractor was not at all raised from 15 to 16 years, which some had been facing for soon ended up in the cloud.
Instead, the focus was on the fact that young people can have the opportunity to take a so-called B1 driver’s license and thus drive faster, 45 kilometers per hour instead of today’s 30 kilometers per hour.
Was pleased with the message
The message was received with pleasure in many with car interest.
“It will facilitate traffic,” said Frida Karlsson, who reads the vehicle program at Rekarnegymnasiet in Eskilstuna to SVT News Sörmland.
Conceptual confusion
But exactly what it is that may be driven for 45 kilometers per hour soon turned out is misunderstood by both multi -media and car drivers of all ages. An A-tractor must no longer be an A-tractor if it is to go for 45 kilometers per hour, even though it may be physically the same modified passenger car that today sprinkles around 30 kilometers per hour.
-How to look we do not have an answer yet, but our ambition is that it should be possible to modify A-tractors for this new type of vehicle. I do not see any other alternative, says Mikael Andersson, press manager at the Swedish Transport Agency.
He confirms that it is likely that most of today’s A-tractors will be able to be adjusted so that they can drive faster, except for vehicles over 2.5 tonnes that must not be driven with B1 cards. But what the vehicles will be called instead is still unclear.
In the clip above, SVT’s reporter Jacob Hede and the Swedish Transport Agency’s press manager Mikael Andersson try to find out the name confusion.