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Lax driving schools, cops give novices license to kill
By China Youth Daily |
March 31, 2012, Saturday
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THANKS to poorly administered drivers' license exams, one killer driver after another has hit the road in China in the past few years.
It's commonplace nowadays to see a young man or woman freshly "minted" from unscrupulous driver schools run red lights or rear end other cars. These road menaces - or killers - are produced in a wholesale manner, as driver schools seek maximum profits and traffic police wink at or even connive with those schools.
On March 28, the Ministry of Public Security announced that it will make drivers' examinations more difficult and, in case of fatal traffic accidents, police departments responsible for granting driving licenses must be investigated.
In the past, investigators would largely target driving schools for irresponsible training. But it's an open secret that, without the help of police departments responsible for issuing drivers' licences, no driver schools would be able to churn out road menaces or killers on a massive scale.
Certainly, holding police responsible won't solve every problem. The Ministry of Public Security also required on March 28 that drivers' exams be made more difficult, like adding tests at night.
But the Ministry could have required more. It should have demanded that all exams are compulsory and that there be no selective exams. For example, a driver must be tested on how to start and engine on an upward incline. This test should not be optional.
It's commonplace nowadays to see a young man or woman freshly "minted" from unscrupulous driver schools run red lights or rear end other cars. These road menaces - or killers - are produced in a wholesale manner, as driver schools seek maximum profits and traffic police wink at or even connive with those schools.
On March 28, the Ministry of Public Security announced that it will make drivers' examinations more difficult and, in case of fatal traffic accidents, police departments responsible for granting driving licenses must be investigated.
In the past, investigators would largely target driving schools for irresponsible training. But it's an open secret that, without the help of police departments responsible for issuing drivers' licences, no driver schools would be able to churn out road menaces or killers on a massive scale.
Certainly, holding police responsible won't solve every problem. The Ministry of Public Security also required on March 28 that drivers' exams be made more difficult, like adding tests at night.
But the Ministry could have required more. It should have demanded that all exams are compulsory and that there be no selective exams. For example, a driver must be tested on how to start and engine on an upward incline. This test should not be optional.
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