Ministry of Transport speaks out about proposal to remove simulated driving license test
Voters petitioned to remove the simulated driving test due to its shortcomings. The Ministry of Transport (MOT) officially spoke out on this issue.
Voters in Long Thanh district, Dong Nai province, reported that the driving test must be simulated using software provided by the Vietnam Road Administration and applied to the teaching and learning program for driving class B1, B2, C, D, E, F… cars. This is inappropriate, does not accurately assess the reality of driving on the road, causes confusion for test takers and wastes a lot of people's time and money.
Voters petition the Ministry of Transport to abolish the organization of simulation tests for car driving licenses.
Responding to this issue, on January 26, the Ministry of Transport stated that the software simulating traffic situations is implemented according to the provisions of Decree No. 138/2018/ND-CP amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 65/2016/ND-CP dated July 1, 2016 of the Government regulating the conditions for business of car driver training and driving testing services; Circular No. 38/2019/TTBGTVT dated September 8, 2019, Circular No. 01/2021/TT-BGTVT dated January 27, 2021 of the Ministry of Transport regulating training, testing, and granting of road motor vehicle driving licenses.
Traffic situation simulation software helps learners recognize and detect unsafe traffic situations that often occur in reality to drive safely; the software is built on the basis of research on simulation software used for testing and granting driving licenses in countries such as: UK, Australia, Japan, Singapore...
The Ministry of Transport confirmed that currently, the rate of students meeting the requirements of the driving test on the traffic simulation software is over 80%.
In response to voters' comments, the Ministry of Transport will assign the Vietnam Road Administration to preside over and coordinate with units to build software to adjust and update some situations suitable to reality, and adjust the recognition time so that learners can easily absorb and handle them.
