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All applicants for permanent driving licences at Sheikh Sarai Regional Transport Office (RTO) are currently sent for a test at the Sarai Kale Khan facility. Aiming for better road safety in the capital, the transport department plans to introduce more stringent driving tests to ensure that only trained people can get a permanent driving licence The first automated test track in Delhi has been operational at Sarai Kale Khan since February 2018. “Out of the average 120 tests conducted every day, 50 to 60 applicants fail the test,” said an official. Those who fail the test can apply and retake it after a week.The automated tests include reversing a vehicle properly, driving on hairpin bends, parallel parking, driving on an incline, swerving the vehicle on loops shaped like 8, etc. From next January, however, all driving tests in Delhi will take place at similar automated test tracks, which will be ready by the end of this year.“We are going full throttle with the automated test tracks and by year-end, these will be ready, except one or two facilities that might take another couple of weeks..