Why there are weird slow Cars all over Sweden 

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In Germany there is a statement written into law (StVO) which states that without good reason a 'motor vehicle must not travel so slowly as to impede the flow of traffic'. Even farming traffic tests the legendary patience of German folk.

The "standard" trick for reduction gearing for EPA traktors was usually to put a second transmission in, and locking it in first gear ;) I'm not from sweden, but i have a lot of friends there. The tractor thing was also done here in norway, where i'm from, but never under any state control, and it ended a long time ago. I know of a 1927 Nash that has been tractorized locally

The cheese slicer is a sculpture in Ånäset indicating that you are entering the "cheese region" symbolic for the special area where the västerbotten cheese is made. Similar to the champagne region is the mecca for bubbly wine.

In Finland, the legislation is just as bizarre - you can get a "T" driver's license at the age of 15, which allows one to drive _any_ tractor ... and therefore there is a sizeable business of retrofitting ATV:s with all the things that you need to get the thing registered as a tractor. So we have these ATVs with cabs that have yellow license plates (shared by all "special" vehicles here, I think) and the same big warning sign being driven around by teenagers. The term is "traktorimönkijä" and the rich kids usually drive those Polaris ones that you usually see only in documentaries about US national forest service 😂

To make things clear: The EPA tractor was typically used as a loophole (for kids to drive slick rides). Officially the EPA was classified as an agriculture machine. This allowed for it to be operated by an underage, and at the same time to access public roads. Of course, most EPA’s were in fact never intended for agriculture; they were built to be toys for kids.

In the Netherlands we have something similar. MMBS vehicles (cars) intended for agricultural purposes, same sign as in Sweden and maximum speed 45 km/h.

The biggest difference be😢tween EPA-traktor and A-traktor is the speed-reduktion. Originally, the EPA-traktor had to have a gear-ratio of 10:1. They were only allowed to drive maximum 30, but could drive much faster. I had a friend with a very high revving Volvo traktor. Sounded like a Ferrari. He broke a couple of engines every year... The A-traktor is made to only being capable of a toppspeed of 30 km/h. First it was by combining 2 gearboxes. With the new rules, they are as you said electronically limited to 30. Wich now has started to be a problem... Some use an override switch. With means that you have vehicles capable of 200+, without any legal force to use seatbelts or winter-tyres. This has caused some serious accidens.

They are pretty much everywhere here where I live, and for me it is quite annoying actually. Some of them are really expensive cars (a lot more expensive than what I drive). And it makes traffic for everyone else a bit unsafe. But then again I have also been young (not as rich as to own a EPA/A-tractor though) and had a moped that did exceed the speed limit on cycling roads and that made it unsafe for everyone also... So I do get it, but it is annoying... Specially with the "Moped cars" that could do 50 Km/h on the same roads and are so much "unsafer" than a normal car converted to A-tractor on the same road doing 30... But then again, many of these 30 Km/h only A-tractor converted cars have a hidden switch to electronically make them normal again and for a 15 year old (with sometimes tinkered/tuned engines and much horsepower) doing 200 Km/h with a flick of switch makes it really unsafe again... I don't know what to do about it actually... it's just weird...

I built an A-traktor with my father and I love to drive it even if I can only go 30km/h. Not every A-traktor's top speed is 30km/h because people manipulate them to go faster. I know a guy who manipulated his by using 1 single 50cm long cable. It took him less than 5 minutes to do and when he was done he took it out for a test drive and topped at 180km/h. This is very illegal ofcourse. The culture around it is very fun to be a part of and I love it. We party, we drift and we do all kinds of fun stupid shit. My friend drives a white van A-traktor with a huge sticker on the side of it saying "Free candy". He actually does give people free candy if they come forward and ask for it. Last winter me and 6 other people sat at the back of the van and 3 at the front (the driver and 2 passengers) and we started drifting. We flew around like hell at the back of the van because there weren't any seats and I will never forget how fun it was.

To the non swedes seing this: Ad our loooong cold winters and a public transport system that really doesn't work so well rurally or between neighbouring counties to the equation. Long distandes, cold, a dismantled bus net and if LUCKY a commuter train every or every other hour makes it rather difficult to hang out with friends. Meeting half way at a gas station and hanging in a cosy car, beats riding a moped for 50 minutes or wasting half a day on a commuter train and waiting on a platform in a snowstorm to see your friend's. I know what I would choose.

Having learned to drive Canada, at 16 I had the driver's license. In rural Canada it was not uncommon for kids to drive as soon as they could reach the pedals and look over the dashboard. The same rule to be applied in Sweden makes sense, especially where public transportation is scarce. Now there are electric cars that can be easily set for those speeds and well, that's the future for Swedish rural kids.

i drove one of these tractors when i was 15 untill i turned 17. i firstly had a Volvo 244 and later i had a Volvo duett. (both was an A-tractor) and i miss that part of my life very often. and i never get mad when im behind one today as i drove one myself when i was that age. i love them and i hope they stay for ever.

Getting stuck behind these things sucks, especially if it is a busy traffic day or a narrow one-track lane.

There are a couple of suggested changes to the rules that might change things. Now the maximum speed for A-traktors is 30, while the normal speed limit in towns are 40 or 50. You can already buy a 2 seater 4 wheel moped car that has 45 as max speed, so it's suggested to change to this for A-tractors too. As it's not too difficult to manipulate the speed limit, and there are ofcourse kids who do that and with more vehicles more accidents happen. There is no requirement to use seatbelts now, but this might soon change.

So I think there is another reason for the ton of classic cars in Sweden. In the winter they are not putting tons of salt on the roads but sand which is not damaging the car regarding corrosion. Latter is not happen in Sweden.

An EPA tractor used in agriculture in the old days was a converted old truck not a car. These were forbidden to be driven by young people without a driving license (18 years old) sometime in the -90s due to the heavy weight of the vehicle and all the serious accidents it created. But these converted heavy trucks are still used today in agriculture for transport between fields and warehouses on the farm 👍

In the UK 20mph streets are spreading in the name of safety and less pollution. The problem is keeping down to that speed, especially in a high torque vehicle where the slightest accelerator movement can shoot the speed up to 25mph in seconds. I saw a list of 20mph accidents, one into a bus stop, one into a hairdressers shop, one into a school fence and others. They all had the same reason - looking at the speedometer instead of the road. I found using a low gear with the engine at max revs keeps the speed within limits but does nothing for mpg figures.

Sounds a bit like the French Voitures Sans Permis, that allowed younger people to drive "cars" that were power limited. The main issue there was that there was a significant aftermarket for those who had driving bans for drunk driving... They could still get VSPs and be mobile.

Well it is definitely safer than driving with scooters on the roads. As well as I can imagine that driving behind those vehicles can be pretty annoying.

The law for converting cars to agricultural vehicles (not necessaricly tractors) was far from unique. It existed in The Netherlands as well, maybe still does. I think that category has now been mostly superseded by the 4 wheel moped category which also has existed for a few decades.

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So now they’re basically teenagers learning to drive… we have bright yellow stickers or magnets here that say student driver or something like that to let others know it’s a new driver, but from what I’ve seen in my area a lot of drivers are annoyed by them and try to intimidate them on the road when they see those student driver stickers.

Ok, Here's some cultural context: The Vintage cars were adored by a type of subculture called "Raggare" in the 50's and 60's. They loved everything North American, especially the 50's music and for some reason the confederate flag (It means what you think it means). To Ragga means to "pick up/chase" girls generally. So their culture mainly consisted of cars, partying, fighting and sleeping around. They were generally rambunctious and caused a lot of problems in the country back then, being drunk all the time and starting fights and all sorts of crime. Fast forward to the 80's and 90's the Raggar culture had become retro and some kids (mostly rural) back then embraced the culture but couldn't afford the now very valuable vintage cars, so instead they built their own EPA Tractors by converting old Volvos and stuff. We called them "volvo Raggare". They were equally rambunctious, but perhaps a little more law abiding. They often installed bothersome contraptions on their cars, like novelty horns, extra exhaust pipes that spewed black smoke and removed the mufflers. The confederate flags remained... This new generation of kids do not directly adhere to the old Raggar culture, they're just rural kids who are spoiled by their parents. They are pretty rambunctious as teenagers generally are, but they are a lot more harmless than the previous iterations of this trend. You can probably presume what I think about the whole thing. The worst part about the A-Traktor kids is that the converted machines are basically just superficial modifications to a normal car, this means that they easily can install a switch that turns off the limitations. The police say that up to 80-90% of the A-Traktors on the roads have this modification. It's common to see them speed away as soon as they exit towns. As they are teenagers they're not especially safe drivers, they generally use the cars as toys, sliding around doing burnouts and stuff like that. It's quite terrifying to meet one outside of town, as you know there is a pseudo psychopath with limited impulse control giggling in there mad with power.

I love that you show a Volvo 780 when you talk about every second person drives a Volvo. You wont see many 780s though, they are very unusual :)

I love them, never owned one. I drove a supermoto instead but seeing the Epa's on the road always brings me a smile cause i know that behind the wheel, there's a kid absolutely loving every second of driving. Yeah its annoying to get stuck behind them sometimes but its worth it. Many people want to get them off the roads but if anything i think we should keep them on the roads but allow them to go 50km/h instead like the moped cars

In Örebro last month I saw an Audi A4 wagon, about 2015 vintage with the orange triangle. It had the loudest car stereo I've ever heard and shiny chrome wheels at a ridiculous negative camber. There's a word for people like the kid driving that, but he'll soon be deaf, so won't hear me say it anyway.

Thanks. Matthias for this interesting video. My wife and I took a trip to Sweden a few years ago. We bought a new Volvo under their overseas delivery programme. Under this programme you purchase the car at your local dealership in the United States and pick the car up at the factory in Gothenburg. After taking delivery of the car we drove around Gothenburg for a day or so then got on the motorway to drive to Oslo. While in Gothenburg I can confirm your statement that about every other car is a Volvo, I would say that at least half of them were, although, when you get away from Gothenburg, it's probably less than 50%. While driving around other parts of Sweden - we later drove from Oslo to Stockholm, then back to Gothenburg, we saw many vintage American cars, so I am able to confirm your second observation. However, we did not see any EPA or A tractors

I live in Sweden and have had a drivers license for 30 years. The A-tractors are annoying and create more unsafe situations than the safety those would create giving the 15 year olds practice on the roads. There are even 110 km/h roads where the A-tractots are allowed. It would be much better just to let the 15 year olds wait til 16 to get a light motorcycle licence if they want to go quicker than a moped in the 6 months of ridable roads. Or just wait until 18 years of age to get a license for cars.

They have been involved in a few accidents in which teenagers have died, as well. Up until recently, no seatbelts were required, and it was legal to let your friends ride along on the loading platform. Another of their problems is that they're still technically cars, and the conversion is oftentimes only done by locking the gear box in the first gear (it's not like some teenagers have figured out how to make them go faster). Do I think that they should be exported to other countries? Not really, no. Let them remain one of our national oddities. Implementing something like them in Germany would also be even more of disaster, unless Stau is your favourite thing ever.

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3:09 Why showing Cuban cars (wrecks) when talking about swedish car culture?

The biggest safety concern is that it is very easy to manipulate the electronic speed limiters. Many of the A-tractors are driven very fast and there are a lot of accidents. Just imaging a 15 year old going 160 km/h with giggling friends crammed in to the vehicle.

So remind me: what did those two rather big references to American classic car collecting (and Cuban vehicles) have to do with A-Traktors?

Wow. Sweden actually figured out how to make teenagers drive like old folks.

no one who drives a normal car likes the EPA and I am of the opinion that we should raise the speed limit to the same as we have for EU mopeds 46km maybe even increase to 50Km on both so that they don't stop the traffic as much

Imagine the many many millions in productivity loss per year from sitting behind those cars just so rich parents teenagers can show off, that's the dumbest thing I have ever heard, just give them ATVs instead.

I thought everybody were familiar with Emperor of cheese: Westerbotten, and the fact that it is made in Burträsk, but apparently not... We live in a world where communication is essential, even for teenagers. The A-traktor is the least bad alternativ for peeople with some financial limits: It's safer than a 2-wheeler or a "mopedbil" (a squimish aluminium or plastic chassi running 45...), it's warmer than a 2-wheeler (tenagers seem to have forgotten have to put on clothes...), they are almost (!) affordable... The downside is lousy fuelconsumption, and the built-in capacity for enraging everybody else. It is though very interesting to see that other countries have different solutions solving the issue of teenage transportation.

Good, accessible and wanted public transit comes first but this could fill mobility gaps in too rural areas.

Ok - You 4-got the fact that you dont have to pay taxes for cars older than 30 years in Sweden - and you have not to visit the Swedish "TÜV" (Bilbesiktning) any longer. So owning an old car is by far not as expensive as in Germany. And due to the fact that you do all kind of "registration" or taking a car "out of traffic" (for a while) - online - you can reduce even the costs for your insurance just by taking your car "out of trafic" when not needing it. Actually these "classic EPA/A-Tractor-scene" (old cut Volvos) is shrinking. Also due to the fact that f.e. sefety-belts and winter-tires (in winter) are required, now by law.

In France, the rule is Vehicule Sans Permis (Vehicle without permit). Driven by 14 year olds and people who have no driving licence (drink drivers in rural areas). The regulations control the weight and speed (45kmh max) of the vehicle. The Citroen Ami is built to these regulations.

I do live in the country in the U.S. I would totally get one for my younger kids to practice with. (And, if they really can serve as a kind of makeshift tractor, then I might get one for that too, because I could use a tractor, and, I can't quite afford a tractor, and, I keep hearing about how the tractor companies are making the new tractors so proprietary that you can't fix them yourself, so, I have always thought that making my own would be best anyway.)

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I haven’t read comments but the A-tractors do rise a lot of 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬. Having spent 30km behind one of these just makes me wonder where to get a Panzerfaust ….

The annoyance with the A-tractors really depends on what type of road you are on and how easy it is for them to drive to the side. If its a big road where they can easily slip into P pockets a bit here and there, its not as much annoyance. But on single roads where the speed limit is above 80 km/h and no chance for them to slip to the side it becomes really aggrevating and dangerous. It is recently up in EU about raising the speed limit of the A-tractors from 30 to 45 km / h so they are same as EU class 1 mopeds. Personally I think they should raise the speed limit to 50 km / h, which is the normal speed within towns (except outside schools etc) and that they have to practise driving in them, and do the driver's exam in them. That would keep them more safe, and they would learn to handle such a big vehicle. Today they only have to do a written exam and then a driving exam on a moped, to later be allowed to sit inside a "car" without earlier practise.

You get cars restricted to 25kph in Germany. I see an old Fiat Panda everyday with a 25kph sticker on the back.

It's absolutely terrible. I hate them. They always block traffic on single lane roads.

there's also a few like this in belgium, 4 wheeled mopeds with a speed limit of 45km/h

As far as I know, there is something simmilar in the USA and Canada, where you don't need a full license to drive vehicles that are 50CC or lower.

I wouldn't say it only started a year ago I saw these types of vehicles begin their rise in popularity about two or three years ago, one person in the same school year as me had gotten two of these one which was a pickup truck model and one which was a BMW city car model, it felt really weird which is how I've been able to keep track of roughly when it began despite my spotty memory concerning time.

I guess we might get that trend here also, Citroën Ami & opel rocks electric. They are not driven by young ones... at least I've seen only a low percentage with that. But I see middle age and older people with them in Kassel. When I asked on at bauhaus they told me "yea, normally I drive by bike/public transport and avoid cars, but for getting goods or weather is not good/cold... its nice to have a smoll one, that can fit on a small slot. I'm sharing a parling space in the garage with my neighbour and we only need a normal power plug." I guess there is a market for smaller, practical, electric cars with 50-120km range. At least if they cost less then 6000-8500€ - this is what people I know pay for their city/second car that they normally buy used.

Living in Canada, where a trip from one town to another is at least 60-70km, this just wouldn't work out. We travel at 10km over the posted speed limit as a norm.

these go 30 km/h like my e bike does on good days, I still wish to have lived in sweden with one of these because my ass freezes and no radio to play my favourite songs :(, but the good news is I get to drive faster version pretty soon EDIT: Aaand my E bike is actually more dangerous than these and these guys don't need to compare specs because who cares because they all go 30 km/h

they should go 50 kmh!

Age restrictions for driving licences are plain stupid. I rode a motorcycle in the Czech Republic illegally from the age of fourteen. Children from villages often had motorbikes at even a younger age. I was a better safer driver then than most middle-aged drivers are today. Driving school exams should be much more demanding, but without age limits. No funny annoyingly slow cars/tractors won't be needed.

I never owned one myself or even been inside one. Where I live there are a lot of them and I often get stuck behind them. With that said they bring a smile to my face. It is a great youth culture and in a way they really are the kings and the queens of the roads.

Are this vehicles allowed abroad? people would drive this in Paris, speed limit is 30 km/h! Danger = running red lights with no license plate...

Pretty strange but guess this class of vehicles services a purpose.

Swede here. I've lived abroad since the late 90s, so much of this is new to me. However, when I was growing up, an EPA tractor was essentially seen as an alternative to the moped, which was the slower and safer version of a motorcycle. I personally think of pickup trucks when I think of EPA tractors, and I think it's horrible what they do to fancy modern cars in order to convert them. But I'm all for the kids gaining experience driving at an early age. Not to mention that a tractor is a LOT safer than a moped.

in Belgium all cars have become A-Tractors as in most cities and even some rural areas the maximum speed is lowered to 30 km/h, the only difference is that young people can't drive them. And when they at last obtain a license (being 18 yrs or older) often they don't know how to behave and fly off roads driving at least 130 km/h :-)

as a Swede. My mother has told me multiple times that she would kill me if i got an A-tractor

Alot of rich farmer kids do this before they can legally drive cars. They get them restricted and derestricted after inspection.

normally slow moving signs are used for farming and constructions vehicles

What a stupid law. No wonder everything in Sweden is fricked..

As a proud owner of a Saab 9-5 A-tractor i can say that its very usefull and fun of course. Although there are also things called moped bilar (moped cars) that in the same way epa tractors classify as tractors they classify as mopeds. So the moped cars can drive up to 45km/h which i think is a good speed for a-tractors too. I mean, i cant even drive in my citys speed limit whilst the moped cars overtake me. I also think that if your car had backseats before it was build it should be allowed to have and use those too. Because before right this month i think, you could sit as many as youd want in the front and without seatbelts. But if you had backseats that wouldnt necessarily be an issue. And as you said the epa tractors are a good way to learn how to drive to get a normal drivers license. I mean, i didnt know how to use the clutch or nothing but now i watch videos of people failing ther driving school tests and cringe for them.

Local Swede here A traktors can be re-registered back into a car once they take their license

Most of A tractor converted old volvos can go 30km/h and do a burnout at same time☝️

Thank God for minium speed requirements on German federal roads and Autobahn 🖕😸🖕

I moved from Schleswig-Holstein in Germany to Småland in Sweden about a year ago. I also thought about byuing an a-traktor but because I'm almost old enough for a driver's license for "real" cars and I'm not exactly bathing in money I didn't buy one.

A-Tractor is WAY better solution than "mopoauto" aka moped car what we have in Finland. those chickenboxes are lethal.

probably better off for everyone if they used ebikes instead. a car at even 30 km/h can do a lot of damage - not to other cars, but to pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.

My Dad got his driver's license in Wisconsin, USA in 1947 at age 14. The was agricultural provision in the law at that time.

The majority of those who drives them are idiots nowadays... I am saying that as a swede who knows some who made a hole in their roofs to fire of fireworks during new years eve...

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Epa cars are so annoying when u are driving on a 70km road They can only drive up to 40-50 km in total but some do pull the pin and it drives the same speed as a normal car but that is a crime and u can get a ban on future driving license i am not sure but i think u get a short sentence for this

No one on the road would appreciate epa traktor in front of you. it is unsafe, a traffic jam creator. worst of all, it consumes more fuel. you have that terrible exhaust gas smell all over your car.

Speaking from the UK looks like a totally stupid idea. Cars driving around at that speed? Nothing but a nuisance.

France allows 4 wheeled quadra-cycles with a speed limit of 45kph and max cc of 660 they are a pain at that speed even with a line of traffic behind them. There are also electric versions coming out the Citroen Ami being the most known one!

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Yeah I live in Denmark and I can so badly see how this is problematic. I mean traffic safety is one thing but there's also many other issues to consider like drunk driving where I have to question if it really is that safe for both the driver and the other people on the road if a drunken 15 year old can be allowed to drive a tractor with how that stuff affects your senses. I think the much safer solution honestly would be expansions into bicycle infrastructure and micro mobility solutions that are more tailored to fit within those parameters, like E-bikes or if absolutely needed because of distance, maybe those little electronic microscooters usually designed for the elderly. Just my 2 cents on it as someone who is also concerned about traffic safety and car dependency.

The cheese slicer, is a Swedish invention, that's probably why it's there, the person who invented it might have been from the place you passed by.

If I were a kid, had the money to buy one and operate it, yeah, I would buy one.

30 km per hour is way to slow. The danger then becomes a slow car on the road. 50 km per hour sounds more reasonable. For example, the Dutch allows 16 year olds to ride mopeds (with helm) that can ride 50km/h. We also allow I think 16 year olds to drive farm equipment (including tractors and harvesting machines and such), but only on very short paths (from one farm plot to the other for example), and never on highways. Its a bit strange to see a teenager driving a monster tractor on roads you normally need a drivers license and be 18 for.

who said it has to be slow:)?

There is a small but important factor missing here. You do need a license to drive a tractor, a tractor license. It use to be that every higher license you took, you automatically all the once under. So in the old days, if you got a Bus license you got all the licenses. This was change in the 90s so you have to take each and every license seperatly, apart from tractor license. So you got any other license, you automatically got a tractor license. In 2009 they added driving license for a moped. Prior to 2009 you could just jump onto a moped and drive it. But from 2009 you needed a license. This was golden for all the driving schools making bank. But as s side effect of that, every one who got a moped license automatically got a tractor license, and if you have a tractor license you can drive both a EPA and a A-tractor. Because moped is really common, loads of people get moped license, hence loads of people are alowed to drive a A-tractor. When its suddenly get pretty cheap to convert a car to a A-tractor. Say the family got a 8-10 year old car and getting a new one. Its not that much more expensive just converting it than buying a new moped. And the car is typically worth MORE as a A-tractor than a car, so you might actually increase the value of it. On top of that, the kid is now well protected with dual side airbags and crumple zone that is waaay over kill for 30km/h. (really more of protection against other motorists). Suddenly the kids get 100 of hours of driving experience. Yes, its a bit slower, but in city and suburb traffic, the diffrance is really not huge. All fine and good? nopp, traffic school start complaining. How hard is it to make a driving test when you have 100 of hours of driving in what is effectively a car. Not at all, you just need a few hours at highway speeds to get used to it. Drivingschools are not happy. Suddenly they decided A-tractors are really really dangerous. Very ironic because they are proven to be way less dangerous than EPA tractors. The thing is, even in city streets, there is a noticeable diffrance between driving at a limited 30 km/h and 40km/h... +VAT. And that give teens that is a bit inexperance the extra time needed to react and learn with really very little danger to people around

We call the small plastic ones Ice cream boxes. Hate them....

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There was no Mercedes Benz 300c in the 30s they used lot older car parts shorten a pick up and restricted it to 30 km u missing lot of important information

We need this in New Zealand!

Oh man, I *NEED* to know what Not Just Bikes thinks about these things.

Im currently in 9th grade and some of my classmates own A-tractors and one my friends is one of them.

I live in Sundsvall in north, actually exactly in the middle but called north, and we have the most of those stupid slow cars of all of Sweden. The person responsible for the law that allows them should be sentenced to prison for the time equally of all time wasted for all Swedes. That would probably be something like almost a million years. The best punishment for everyone driving thoses is that when they get a real car they get to waste time behind the slow cars for the rest of their life.

What a great way to screw up traffic! I hope they're not allowed on main roads (but probably are). Also, for a country that's so environmentally conscious, this makes no sense at all. All this cars going at such a slow pace in low gear, so much unnecessary emission of gases!

Better then those stupid 'brommobiels' that are now in our country (Netherlands). It used to be possible to convert old cars to slow-driving ones here too but I believe that is not possible anymore since about 15-20 years now. I wanted to convert my old van to this. It would mean replacing some gears to slow it down but still have enough power to drive with it. I think it is way more economically and also envirenmently friendly to be able to convert cars this way: you really wear a car out to its end and give it a slow end-of-life. Of course, not on the higway but small roads, ok! Now here we have a lot of those car-like things with small, smelly motors that are really not made up to the task of the weight and have problems with the motor, brakes and all other parts a lot simply they need to be like a lightweight motorbike (

I love it. We use the exact same triangular "slow moving vehicle" sign here in the states. Except here you only ever see them on the back of farm tractors, construction equipment, and the Amish folk's horse drawn buggies!

You will have a 2 year driving experience and a car you can re-register as a normal car when you get your license at 18 years. So it has many advantages. The big downside is that they slow down traffic and create road trafficblocks due to their popularity. I hope they change so they are only allowed to drive on roads at a max of 50 km/h.

They learn mechanics too 👍🏻

BTW. Volvo is a wholly owned Chinese company. That aside as long as these vehicles do not have driving licence requirements (if they do then get rid of the rule) then a drunk driver or one who habitually speeds loses their ability to drive their big Volvo but have to drive for a year or more in a slow old tractor with a big red triangle on it. The car of shame :-).

I think these days, electric golf carts like the Citroen Ami make more sense for slow-driving vehciles.

Why not drive mopeds instead of big bulky cars...?