Road safety experts have called for the introduction of psychological assessments to the UK driving test as the current test fails to root out drivers prone to breaking rules.
Psychometric tests could help to identify people with the wrong attitude to the road and comes at a time when the Driving Standards Agency is carrying out a review of how people learn to drive.
A driving based psychometric assessment can really get inside the mind of the driver and identify driving behaviours most likely to place him or her at risk, while specific driver coaching, be it in workshops or behind the wheel, can help modify or correct those attitudes and behaviours
I have taught people to drive since 1983 and am convinced some of the people who I taught and subsequently passed, were not mentally prepared to keep their temper, anger or frustration in tow.
Yet there was and to date is no testing for ‘attitude’. It worried me then it worries me now. Licences are dished out to anyone upon their 16th or 17th birthday depending on bike or car and no screening in done to filter out those who may not, for whatever reason be able to keep cool calm and collected in a car.
Nor those who feel the world owes them a living and they can go out and break very driving rule in the book leaving a trail of devastation in their wake.
I totally welcome this approach and perhaps all currant Uk drivers should undergo on as well.
FemaleFirst Jackie Violet