SALARIED DRIVJER-TESTERS
There are fifteen thousand people (including 2000 women) in the United Kingdom who consider themselves competent to examine applicants for motor-car driving licences. Taking these people at their own valuation, the number of specialists in motor-car driving seems to be very high, and this is the more wonderful when one remembers that the motorcar was only beginning in the nineties and is practically a development of this century. A generation's growth has given the United Kingdom all this number of motordriving experts, yet the efficiency of the average driver is such that the motor accidents cause national alarm. Does the remedy lie in improving the human factor, or in, improved laws, ordinances, road control, etc.? The; rush of 15,000 people for 200 examiners' positions suggests that there is no lack of men (and women) who (for a consideration) will improve the human side of motor-driving. But if such improvement meant the delicensing of many drivers and the barring of many applicants, would the situation be faced?
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 145, 17 December 1934, Page 10
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168SALARIED DRIVJER-TESTERS Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 145, 17 December 1934, Page 10
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