iPads to be used by road test inspectors

The “Smart Tablets (iPad)” project has been launched by the Driver Licensing Department of the Licensing Agency at Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), as it said in a media statement.

The statement said that the iPads have been distributed to the RTA inspectors as the first part of this project.

Sultan Al Marzouqi, Director of Driver Licensing at the Authority, said: “We saw a need to work on transforming the testing services of vehicle drivers to electronic to be in line with the constant changes, through distributing tablets to inspectors during the practical testing of trainees, which will facilitate the licensing application, by recording observations and errors committed by the trainee during the test in a very accurate and clear manner than the old handwriting method on paper.”

Adding: “These tablets can calculate all errors, once connected to the Internet they are directly linked to the electronic traffic system and show the final result of the trainee.”