Abstract
The number of patients with epilepsy (PWE) who legally obtained their driving licenses has been increasing since the amendment of driving license regulations in 2002. In most cases the attending physicians assessed for fitness for driving and in 4% of cases, designated epileptologists were asked to assess the patients fitness. Problems concerning assessment included difficulty in deciding the time for reassessment, distress of PWE over cancellation (instead of stopping) of driving license because they were unfit to drive and responsibility of the assessing physicians in case of seizure recurrence. Physicians' understanding of the regulations plays a pivotal role for assessment in favor of people with epilepsy, although there should occur some amendments of the regulations such as shortening the seizure-free period for fitness to drive and special guidelines for different conditions such as recently diagnosed epilepsy and oligo-epilepsy.
