Mr Gifford, executive director of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS), said the current test assessed people's technical ability - their hand, eye and foot co-ordination.
But he said it failed to look at their psychological attitude to the road.
For example, it fails to assess if they see themselves as risk-takers, making them more likely to break the speed limit or jump a red light.
He said a psychometric assessment would help identify such faults and instructors and examiners would then be able to modify the person's behaviour.
"What one would want to do is - in addition to the multiple choice questions that there are in the theory test at the moment - we would give people a series of value judgements," he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6736587.stm"These could include, 'At what speed would you anticipate driving down this road?' or 'Have you ever left the traffic lights while they have been on red?'.
"We would ask people the extent to which they agree or disagree with these statements.
"It would be a way of picking up their underlying values rather than just the facts that they have at their disposal, which are a series of multiple choice questions."
errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm but WTF! I'm pretty sure those questions would pretty easy to cheat on!! i think they should win an award for stupidest questions of the year!
) fails to cater for the state of mind people get in after they've been stuck in traffic for 4 hours, been cut off three times, only nearly missed the neighbors kid running over the street unexpectedly or after a good row at home........
praps there is something other than Opera after all...