Consumer body seeks transition time for driving schools to establish training facilities for Automated Driving Test Tracks
A consumer advocacy group in Coimbatore is urging the government to provide a transition period for driving schools to adapt to new automated testing tracks. The call follows high failure rates among applicants and legal challenges from driving school associations.
Why it matters
Balancing road safety regulations with the practical readiness of training infrastructure is a significant public policy challenge.
The Coimbatore Consumer Cause has called for granting driving schools with adequate transition time to establish facilities so they could train applicants to take the driving test on the Automated Driving Test Tracks. It drew the government’s attention to the high failure rates of applicants for two-wheeler and four-wheeler driving licences after the introduction of the automated system by select Regional Transport Offices.
The organisation said the current failure rate was about 90% for four-wheeler licence applicants and 30% for two-wheeler applicants at 12 Regional Transport Offices, where the new system has been introduced.
The system has placed the applicants for licences at serious disadvantage because most driving schools do not possess such training facilities, and many impart training only on public roads, it said. Applicants do not learn the skills for manoeuvres and precision driving to successfully complete the automated driving test, the petition said.
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