Driver training - "what goes around comes around!"

(Baonghean) -The Ministry of Transport has just issued a decision to suspend the Da Nang Driving Test Center because of violations such as not ensuring technical standards, not publicly controlling theoretical tests for people to monitor and track, and not ensuring data storage. A few days earlier, two car driving training facilities in Ho Chi Minh City and Hau Giang were also suspended by the Ministry of Transport from enrolling and training car drivers for violating regulations on driver training of all classes.

We know the saying “better late than never”, but if the Ministry of Transport had taken action a few years earlier, we are sure that the chaos and violations of State regulations in driver training and testing would not have reached the current level. Meanwhile, at driving test centers, the phenomenon of “grand testing” of all kinds in driving tests of all types is quite blatant and widespread. That is not to mention the lines of “running” driving licenses that the public still talks about every time they are mentioned. One of the reasons leading to the above phenomenon is that people’s need to drive is increasing, while for-profit driving training facilities have competed for students with a lax way of teaching, learning and testing. So lax that it is not uncommon for people to hold a driver’s license but not be confident enough to sit behind the wheel.

In Nghe An, there are currently 7 driving training facilities located in Vinh City, surrounding these facilities are many "satellite facilities" and "satellite" teaching styles in districts, towns and right in the city. The violations are certainly similar to many of the 330 "centers" of driving training in the country that the public and the press have reported. Surely those who have learned to drive and taken the test at the driving test center know that very well.

If according to Circular 46/2012 of the Ministry of Transport, the driving training time for class B1 is 556 hours, B2 is 588 hours and class C is 920 hours, then how many driving training facilities can guarantee this? And, are there any drivers who have been fully trained in the Road Traffic Law, fully trained in driver ethics? If there is a delegation of competent authorities to the training centers to check, can we be sure that the documents, records, and even the students' tests are complete?

So the question of why accidents in recent years are at an alarming rate and in the first 6 months of 2013 all 3 criteria increased is not difficult to understand! It is not difficult to explain why the number of vehicles violating traffic safety regulations is increasing; why the phenomenon of "crazy cars" occasionally "appears" on the streets and on the roads! And, please do not fine "amateur drivers"! Because they are taught like that, learn like that and are mostly tested like that, so driving like that is natural. It is best to invite them to driving training facilities to re-study seriously.

Viet Long