United Arab EmiratesEducation2026 – ongoingEmirates Driving Company
Smart Yard AI driving tests without an examiner in the car
Emirates Driving Company began testing learner drivers in Abu Dhabi with cameras and AI instead of an examiner in the car
Problem
Driving tests depended on an examiner sitting in the car. Emirates Driving Company trains about 140,000 people a year.
Approach
The Smart Yard uses cameras, sensors and AI to run and score the test while an examiner watches from a control room. It checks seatbelt and mirrors, sets the test sequence, classes errors as minor, major or critical, shows the result at once and saves the video for appeals. The car brakes or stops itself if it speeds, leaves the test area or risks a collision. Only a limited number of vehicles used the system at the time of reporting, and the CEO said all customers would move over in the coming months.
Results
Takeaway
The test result and the video record are produced on the spot, which helps with appeals. The report gave no pass-rate or cost figures and did not name the technology supplier.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Education
- Business function
- Production and quality
- Innovation type
- Process innovationProduct and service innovation
- AI technology
- Computer vision
- Adoption
- Built in-house
- Evidence
- Press reporting
Sources
Source summaries
A Khaleej Times reporter tried the Smart Yard and described how it scores and supervises the test. The article says only a limited number of vehicles use it so far and that the CEO expects all customers to move over in the coming months. It gives the annual trainee count and test length.
Full details are in the original sources.
