Is there a need to retake the driving test?
WLast part e also believe that with the proliferation of proper driving schools (a good business considering the newness and number of their school cars, as well as the extensive private courses they offer) better drivers are produced, compared in the past when a “driving school” was usually the family driver teaching us on some abandoned road or empty subdivision. In my day, the few driving schools extant required you to bring your own car, and the few schools that had cars, for which the driving school charged highway-robbery prices, were in such bad shape you needed a mechanic to come along.
If you look beyond the broad condemnation of driving skills these days, it is plausible that today’s drivers should be better educated than us who have learned how to drive during the 1960s, give or take the mistakes we committed to get to our level of competence/incompetence today. I have had household staff take driving courses in the excellent but now defunct AAP Driving School and, believe me, comparing driving aptitude immediately after “graduation” with myself as the “dummy,” I was shamed by their proficiency, finesse and accuracy. The popular A-1 Driving School not only has lots of current-model, air-conditioned school cars, but also has a couple of extensive driving courses. Honda’s driving academy for both car and motorcycle owners has one of the best facilities in the region.
Now, suppose that the LTO imposes this licensing exam re- take as a pre- condition to license renewal by 2018? Unless the LTO provides the exam and reviewer over the Internet, ready for online examination or a printable form ready for submission, we may have to spend a few minutes more at the agency’s offices shading the right circles on the exam form. Or less, if the other proposal requiring random examination of applicants, using a much shorter list of questions, sort of like a pop quiz, is what the LTO decides to apply.