In the registration and examination units of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Sverdlovsk Region, the influx of drivers making changes in their rights. Many come with certificates whose validity is not yet expired. As noted in the propaganda department of the State Traffic Inspectorate, motorists want to get new certificates for a period of 10 years.

The queues in MREO became longer by 50%.

Many drivers were frightened by publications that soon they, probably, at extension of the rights it is necessary to pass theoretical examination on knowledge of traffic rules and rules of rendering of the first help on roads.

The traffic police tries to alert the panic-strikers:.

"The introduction of the theoretical examination was proposed by the Russian Union of Driving Schools as one of the tools to reduce road deaths, but it is not currently considered at any level of the publication of regulations and is not included in any draft law," the State Automobile Inspection.