Standard Driving Test Defended
(N.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN, Sept. 14. The Dunedin City traffic superintendent (Mr P. Lunn) disagrees with a Napier traffic officer who said that the standard driving test had not been an improvement. Traffic Officer H. L. Walker told the Hawke’s Bay County Council: “The method of standardisation of driving tests mav be all very well up to a point, but 1 am sure it is not, and never will be, the answer to our ever growing road deaths.”
He criticised particularly the written test, because some people who were not equipped with a high standard academically could not interpret the questions properly. Mr Lunn said today: “I think the standard test is a good thing, and anybody with reasonable intelligence should have no difficulty passing the written part if they know the regulations. “Some may take longer than others, but generally those who ponder for a long time do not know the answers, and fail anyway. “It is early yet to judge the efficiency of the test, although the failure rate has gone up since the standard test was introduced. That is primarily because there are more questions, though,” Mr Lunn said.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30857, 16 September 1965, Page 6
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