Under current regulations, applicants for a driving licence have to pass a physical driving test, and then attend and pass a five-hour training course on traffic laws and general awareness of safe driving. The increase in training hours will not make roads safer as long as drivers remain reckless behind the steering wheel. The government needs to realise that this enhanced compulsory training course will not reduce road accidents as long as law enforcement remains weak. Law enforcement agents should be equipped with electronic gadgets to track traffic law breakers and then suspend their driving licences for a certain period of time once they exceed the limit of traffic law offences. Tripling the hours of testing without doubling law enforcement efforts will not be helpful.

Source: Bangkok Post March 15, 2017 21:33 UTC