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France to relaunch fuel aid scheme and expand it to 5.5 million drivers
The €100 aid will be renewed, with drivers who benefitted from first round of scheme seeing automatic payments
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Virtual points plan for drivers with foreign licences advances in France
Aim is to end inequality between French and foreign-licence holders
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French fuel crisis: summer diesel extended; 14% shortages at pumps
Prices hover at record levels but government will not cut fuel taxes
Technology drives me batty
I agree with the debate in your October issue ( Should older drivers take a medical to keep motoring?).
I need to brush up my techniques and knowledge, especially of such questions as the difference between a rond point and a sens giratoire – one giving a driver priority to the right and the other to the left.
There is also a vast category of drivers (such as myself!) that need to learn again how to drive a modern electronically engineered car.
My partner has one so complicated I have no idea how to start it!
I quite seriously consider myself to be unqualified to drive it, with my only acquaintance being with mechanically conceived and driven vehicles.
We now find ourselves with only one vehicle that both of us can drive.
Stephen Burrough, Charente
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