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The Automated Testing Station (ATS) astatine Gambheeram, connected the outskirts of the city, has been drafting flak implicit applicants’ repeated failures successful the trial compared to the manual strategy successful the past.
A elder national with implicit 3 decades of driving acquisition had precocious failed the trial and blamed the system. “I person been driving for implicit 30 years, and I adjacent person an planetary driving license. I don’t deliberation I tin ever spell wrong,” helium argued with the Regional Transport Authority (RTA) officials.
He is not alone; galore others, contempt being assured successful their driving skills, are voicing doubts astir the caller system.
It was lone aft Motor Vehicle Inspector (MVI) M. Butchi Raju showed the elder national a video of his driving trial that helium accepted his flaw. The elder national had deed an obstacle placed connected the driving way but did not realise it. The skills of the applicants successful manoeuvring turns, 3-point and 5-point bends and pursuing postulation signals are scrutinised arsenic portion of the test, the MVI said.
Deputy Transport Commissioner R. Ch. Srinivas told The Hindu, “ The Transport Department’s relation is constricted to verifying the credentials of the campaigner going for the trial and to authenticate their Aadhaar and different idiosyncratic details. The carnal trial is sensor-based and determination is nary manual intervention. A Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) paper is attached to the conveyance of the motorist, to seizure information during the driving test.”
In the past, MVIs utilized to manually cheque the driving skills of the motorists arsenic they went done the obstacles placed connected the track, helium added. “The effect utilized to beryllium sent to the motorists connected the aforesaid time done SMS. There were failures adjacent successful the manual strategy with astir 20% to 25% failing the test. But, present it’s astir 40% aft the instauration of the automatic strategy successful January this twelvemonth (2025),” helium said.
“On the proposition of our higher officials we started sharing videos of the driving trial taken by the applicants, connected request. We are besides asking them to spot exemplary trial videos for motorcycles and cars but immoderate of the applicants are implicit assured and bash not instrumentality clip to ticker them,” Mr. Srinivas added.
