The Central Bureau for Driving Licenses (CBR) wants to make it more difficult for candidates to drive in order to increase the chance of success and shorten waiting times.
Now a driving instructor still determines when his or her student seems ready for the driving test. The CBR wants to tighten up that policy. In the future, two driving schools must give their approval before a student is allowed to drive, says CBR director Alexander Pechtold The Telegraph. Pechtold says in the newspaper that an exam has to be aborted about 3,000 times a year because the candidate is driving too dangerously. To prevent driving schools from sending students to the driving test too quickly, he wants another driving school to look at the driving skills of the student first.
Pechtold outlines how this will work. “So you take a lesson at driving school A and if your instructor thinks you are ready to drive, you take a lesson at driving school B who also has to agree that you are suitable to sit for an exam.” Only then can a date be set for the driving test. As far as he is concerned, the plan will be introduced as soon as possible and a political decision for this measure is not necessary. “We are already running a pilot with it.” During previous lockdowns, all exams and tests at the CBR had to be cancelled, which has resulted in major exam backlogs, which the organization is trying to eliminate in all kinds of ways.
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