It is difficult to test the driver’s license, it is difficult to be in the subject 2, the prospective drivers who have successfully passed the test have something to say. If you encounter an examiner who is not in a good mood and pays attention to the details, the driving test that he is lucky to pass may not be able to pass.

Fortunately, China has done a very good job in introducing automated equipment to assist in driving tests. The same set of standards guarantees fairness, and automated invigilation equipment can largely avoid bribery in driving tests.

But India is not like this.

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The driving test in India is very irregular and the entire driving test system is corrupt and inefficient. It is not uncommon for Indian candidates to take the test and the bribe test. The examiner has no way to notice all the driving problems. In many cases, there will be misjudgments.

Institutions concerned with road safety SaveLIFE Foundation, 59% of India’s driver’s license holders did not take the driving test. The reason for this is that there are only 13 examiners in Delhi, and up to 50,000 licenses are issued each year. According to government estimates, 30% of the existing licenses are forged.

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In order to make the entire driving test system more efficient, the transportation office in Dehradun, the capital of Uttarakhand, India, began to use the HPMS project results developed by Microsoft to conduct the driving license examination. Unlike traditional exams, candidates do not need to drive a car under the watch of the invigilator, but rather run a HAMS are invigilated.

HAMS is a Microsoft Research Team Developed an artificial intelligence project that uses the front and rear cameras and other sensors of the smartphone to observe the driver’s operation, monitor the road ahead of the driver, and record whether the driver observes the rearview mirror in accordance with driving requirements. Microsoft’s research team said that in order to help the driver test, they customized the HAMS system to accurately record the vehicle’s trajectory during the test.

Now, as long as there is a mobile phone in the driving test, it can be determined whether the driver has performed the correct operation as required during driving. Whether the number of forward or backward adjustments during the reverse is more than the limit, and whether there is a stopover. Or correct the direction. In addition, it can check if the driver has observed the road condition from the rearview mirror as required before the parallel lane.

Shri Shailesh Bagauli, Government Secretary of Uttarakhand, said, “This test is an important step for the Ministry of Transportation to provide efficient, globally leading services to citizens of Uttarakhand… We are proud to be an application One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence to improve road safety.”

After introducing a smartphone with HAMS, if the reference person has any questions about the results of the exam, they can also view the video recording of their driving to find out what is insufficient.

In this regard, Venkat Padmanabhan, deputy general manager of the Microsoft India Research Institute, which started the HAMS project in 2016, said that the use of artificial intelligence technology can reduce the reliance on invigilators throughout the entire process, and also make the entire invigilation test process more transparent.

The HAMS team’s initial research was to monitor drivers and their driving behavior to improve road safety. Now it is directly a novice driver inspection tool, and it is also a source of road safety.

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