Bim instead of Car for 37 Vienna Driving Instructors

The Vienna driving schools and the Vienna public transport company are allowing 37 prospective driving instructors to drive around the Ring in a tram this year, so they can better prepare their students for city traffic. This was announced by the Vienna Chamber of Commerce and the Vienna public transport company in a press release on Tuesday. The driving instructors are supervised by trainers from the Vienna public transport company. This is intended to increase traffic safety.

Through this "driving lesson," the driving instructors are supposed to learn, for example, how a tram driver perceives other cars or how the braking distance of the tram behaves. "We can all make road traffic a bit safer every day through mutual consideration," says Karl Schlosser, chairman of the Vienna driving schools. "And to better understand others, a change of perspective helps."

This knowledge can then be better conveyed to their driving students, according to Schlosser. "This increases safety on Vienna's roads. Because if I learn as a driving student how much space a tram needs to brake, then I won't change lanes too closely in front of a tram." The Vienna public transport company repeatedly enables this change of perspective for driving instructors to create more understanding for the peculiarities of the vehicles and thus ensure more traffic safety, it was said.

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