According to the Vietnam Road Administration, in 2022, the country will have about 1.5 million people learning to drive cars, but only about 50% will pass the driving test. Tightening the training, testing, and licensing of drivers is a task set by the Ministry of Transport to combat corruption, negativity, and limit traffic accidents.
There have been solutions for applying information technology, including requiring training facilities to install distance and time (DAT) monitoring devices, adding simulation tests to the theory test, and learning to drive in an electronic cabin. However, the actual implementation has many shortcomings that make students "laugh and cry".
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Camera does not recognize face, student has to drive back hundreds of kilometers
Ms. Nguyen Thu Huong (Nam Tu Liem district, Hanoi) shared the hardships she went through when studying and taking the driving license test last May.
Ms. Huong took the B2 license test so she had to learn to drive 810km under the supervision of DAT equipment, including a regulation of more than 3 hours of driving at night.
“In order to comply with the mandatory regulation of completing nearly a thousand kilometers plus driving time at night, instructors often let students drive on the highway. However, accidents still happen.
One night, the teacher and students ran all the way from Hanoi to Thai Nguyen, but when the class ended, they discovered that the DAT device's camera could not recognize my face. Honestly, at that time, I felt like I was frozen," Ms. Huong said sadly.
Frustrated that all her efforts had gone down the drain, Ms. Huong said: "It was clearly me, no one else was driving, but the system still reported an error. After a while, the teacher and students found out that the cause was the car going in the opposite direction. We had to cover the camera to limit the reflection so that my face could be "identified".
"The teacher and students' efforts all night were lost. We had to run 180km again in 3 hours at night, but we couldn't do it right away because it was too late," Ms. Huong recalled.
In Ha Tinh, a TDP driving instructor also shared a similar situation when the DAT monitoring device was unstable, had inaccurate recognition, and updated data was often incorrect, causing many inconveniences for students and instructors.
“Many days, after driving for a while, the DAT monitoring device would malfunction, so the teacher and students had to wait. In desperation, after waiting for the machine to work again, it would malfunction again after driving for a while. There was a day when the teacher and students had to stop 30 times because the DAT could not recognize the student’s face,” Mr. P. shared.
To fix the problem of the monitoring device not recognizing the student's face, Mr. P. had to turn on the cabin lights while driving.
“But if you do that, your glasses will be dazzled, which is very dangerous. The worst part is that you have to watch the road and traffic while also monitoring the DAT’s activities, so it will be very distracting.
If you focus on observing the road, when DAT "acts up", it will be in vain. If you keep your eyes on DAT, your observation on the road will be limited, and the risk of causing a traffic accident is very high," Mr. P. said with concern.
Driving instructor TCĐ. said that recently he and 2 students drove to Vung Ang. The round trip took 4 hours, but the DAT device only recorded 1 hour and 40 minutes.
“The effort and effort that we teachers and students put in is nothing. There are cases like Mr. T. who taught 800km but lost 600km and had to run back. Honestly, it is so hard!”, Mr. TCĐ said sadly.
DAT devices still have many errors, affecting students' learning process.
Mr. Nguyen Huu Nghia, Deputy Director of Bac Ha Driver Training and Testing Center (Tu Son, Bac Ninh) cited many cases where students were able to log in to DAT data, drive a long distance until the end of the logout session, then the car entered an area with no signal, the 3G network was poor so it could not automatically transmit data to the Department of Roads at that time.
“If it takes more than 2 minutes, the center has to manually transfer the session data. But like last June, there were weeks when the Department of Roads software also “froze”. There were even cases where the results were not recognized, forcing students to run it again,” said Mr. Nghia.
The leader of the Department of Transport, Vehicle and Driver Management (Bac Ninh Province Department of Transport) said that in driver training and testing, the most difficult thing for the locality is operating the DAT management equipment system.
According to regulations, after the DAT device records the learning process of students from training facilities, the data will be automatically transmitted to the management system of the Department of Roads. The Department of Transport will base on this data system to approve students who meet the conditions (time, number of kilometers traveled) to participate in the exam.
“Bac Ninh has 7 driving training and testing facilities. On average, there are several hundred or even thousands of sessions per day. With such a large number of sessions, how can we control these sessions? Officers cannot sit and monitor each session,” said this leader.
At a meeting on driver training and testing organized by the Department of Roads, Mr. Ngo Duc Thanh, Deputy Director of the Department of Transport of Bac Ninh province, also said that the DAT device still has many errors that affect the learning process of students.
“In addition, there is also a situation where humans have to monitor the technology. That means the DAT software does not automatically conclude the results of the learners, forcing the Department of Transport staff to directly review and approve, wasting a lot of time of the management agency,” said Mr. Thanh.
Faced with these shortcomings, Mr. Thanh recommended that it is necessary to amend the standards on DAT devices and have technological solutions to detect and prevent cheating, device interference, and falsification of student results.
In addition, the DAT device data management system software also needs to be upgraded to be able to automatically analyze data, detect abnormal sessions, and automatically remove invalid sessions.
Emphasizing that the DAT device is a newly built software system, it is inevitable that there will be some technical errors. The Department of Roads said that since July 1, the unit has completed upgrading the system and is currently receiving DAT data from training facilities.
Regarding the above problems regarding DAT running regulations, the Department of Roads affirms that it is studying and accepting them to make adjustments suitable to the actual situation.
However, the unit has not yet informed about the adjustment roadmap. This means that students will continue to have to endure the possibility of having their course results canceled even though they have just run hundreds of kilometers on the road.
From June 15, 2022, DAT devices must be installed on driving practice vehicles. DAT management data must also be transmitted to the training facility's server and automatically transmitted to the Vietnam Road Administration's system.
The purpose of the DAT device and data is to closely monitor the practical learning process on the road. According to regulations, B1 license candidates must complete 710km of road in 24 hours; B2 license candidates must drive 810km in 40 hours under the supervision of the DAT device.
However, during use, DAT did not promote its advantages as expected, causing difficulties for learners, training institutions and local Departments of Transport.
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