The National Agency for Road Safety signed, today, Thursday, a partnership and cooperation agreement with the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University of Benguerir, aiming to modernize the exams for obtaining a driver's license, and to ensure their transparency and integrity.
The agreement signed between the two institutions will enable the deletion of the physical character of the evaluation of candidates to pass the driver's license exam during the applied tests, as the evaluation will become digitized and will not be subject to human intervention as is the case currently.
The National Agency for Road Safety relies on the new form for evaluating candidates to pass the driver's license exam to give it transparency and integrity, after the theoretical exam, which is now being conducted via computer, has been comprehensively digitized.
According to the information provided by Nasser Boulajoul, Director of the National Agency for Road Safety, the Agency has developed a project to radically re-bank the theoretical exam questions for obtaining a driving license, bringing the number of questions to 1,000 questions instead of the current 600.
With regard to the applied exam that the candidate passes after the theoretical exam, Boulajoul explained that “they will be able and digitized in turn, thanks to the partnership and cooperation agreement signed by the National Agency for Road Safety and the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, as this mechanism will enable the control of all operations carried out by the candidate.” while passing the practical exam in the field.
The National Agency for Road Safety aims, through the “automation and digitization” of the applied exam for obtaining a driver’s license, to reduce the human element’s interference in the evaluation of candidates, and to ensure whether the candidate has completed all the processes and succeeded in passing them, and thus “neutralising everything that can be said about the integrity of Examination,” according to Paulajoul.
Professors and researchers at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University will prepare the model project for the control system for passing the practical exam to obtain a driver's license, and it is expected that the project will be presented at the end of the current year or the beginning of the next year.
After activating the new system, the practical exam will be conducted to obtain the driving license through a smart car that interacts with the barriers during the test of the candidate parking the car or entering it into the garage. determining its trajectory.
For his part, Hisham El-Habti, President of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, said that the university has qualified human resources to make the project of digitizing driving license exams a success.
The same spokesman added that the partnership agreement signed between the university and the National Agency for Road Safety is part of the latter's efforts to digitize and improve the services it provides in the field of road safety, adding that the multidisciplinary Mohammed VI University will make available to the National Agency for Road Safety its competencies. And its human and logistical capabilities, whether at the level of the data center in Benguerir, or the rest of the electronic equipment.
