The road transport department (JPJ) has announced the official introduction of the electronic driving test system (e-testing), with its implementation being carried out via a pilot project in three driving institutes across the country. According to transport minister Anthony Loke, driving institutes across the country will be allowed to offer e-testing-based evaluations starting from April.
Under the new system, learner drivers will no longer have a JPJ officer sitting next to them during their driving tests, as all evaluation will be done in real-time remotely from a control room via multiple cameras and sensors on the circuit. It will be used for practical tests such as the slope test, three-point turn, reverse parking, parallel parking, the Z-course and S-course. Students will be able to review their tests should they fail.
Loke said aside from simplifying the audit process and monitoring of testing activities, the system would reduce unethical practices such as lesen kopi and would protect both JPJ officers and driving schools from being accused of being involved in corruption.
He said the e-testing system will allow more candidates to be tested (up to 150 per day) compared to the existing or manual testing system, although candidates will still be given the option to pick a regular test instead of e-testing.
Although the driving institute can charge a maximum of RM100, candidates who choose to use e-testing will receive several benefits, such as making a second attempt for each failed test element on the same day at no additional cost to them.
As for a repeat test, the candidate only needs to do that only for failed elements, without having to repeat the entire Part II test element (such as manual test execution). “Test candidates who are tested using the system will be given priority in the test reservation list. In addition, a RM10 rebate is also given for the issuance of a trial license,” he said.
The three driving institutes carrying out the pilot trials are Surfine Hitech Driving Institute in Hulu Langat, Selangor; Pusat Latihan Memandu Berjaya in Ulu Tiram, Johor and Five Bintang Institute Abadi in Penang. Loke said there are three more e-testing service providers that are still in the evaluation phase and would be announced later.
He said a period of six years will be given to driving institutes to make the transition from manual testing to e-testing, but encouraged them to adopt the new system as soon as possible.
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6 years for driving school to transition??!
By that time change ministet again lor…
Without tester inside car with student..what happens if student accidently accelerate,by panicking?
At least the test car has extra brakes for instructor/tester to “help” brake.
We have seen many cases of students accelerating very fast when they slide at the slope.
What happens if the panicky student kills innocent bystanders? Hire Hisyam Teh Poh Teik to defend oneself?
Believe this is for testing inside the compound
Believe this is for testing inside the testing compound, not in public area.
Who knows he might have ran out of number plates to sell by then so he seeks another job before he finishes.
This new system is veli veli kood, I dink. An often failed student can slip 2k rm in the glove box & say nothing, or a pretty lady only need to lift her skirt higher, wink at the tester, touch his thigh & give him her ph no. KauDim. Jus saying la. Maybe that’s happened before. Some people are driving so badly nowadays, imho.
Anthony loke better spend more time looking into barbarian mamat thugs on the road . Else it will become the norm .
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Jaypigjay officers not gonna be happy about this. You taking away their main source of income.
Haha. Guess again. Who controls the system? JPJ of course! it only serves to centralise their income for better distribution.
Well done Loke! You only help to professionalise corruption!
Its ok..they buy house with bumi discount still cheap
when want to introduce skid control as part of driving school lesson?
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Makesure got anti-rasuah officer sitting beside the evaluator in the control room. During my time early 00s, no pay rm800 guaranteed no passed. Evaluator with black face keep shouting “bangang” at u on the road test and the end your results most being crossed red dunno what’s the wrong doing.
Another project for someone to get those juicy gov money
Good…we will then see how low is the passing rate..LOL