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It’s probably a few years until the driving theory test will become irrelevant and with a review of how effective it currently is we can expect changes to the driving theory test in the next few years.

However there is a vision of cars in the future that will be able to understand signs and signals on their own and react accordingly. These cars are currently being tested by the US military for use in battlefield situations, but it will be only a matter of years until these technologies start hitting real roads.

Directional signs must only have a limited life - in the next ten years all new cars will start coming with Satellite navigation as standard - and then why spend the money on sign that only tell people what they already know!

With cars like these soon on the road will the instructional signs disappear soon also? To get a car to understand signs it is less efficient to get them to read an actual sign - but to get the sign to send out an electronic signal to tell the car it is there. This sort of replacement project would cost a lot of money though, but what if the road signs became virtual and only existed inside the Satellite Navigation software then that could be the end of road signs as we know them.

It might be that the current generation taking the driving theory test will be the last to take the driving theory test as we know it and that not only the test - but the reasons for the test might change in the future.

For now though it is clear that there is a new driving theory test starting in September - it will have 50 questions not 35 and will have a pass mark that is now higher at 86% - this is future that most current students should be worrying about! The new test questions will be launched on Monday for people to start practising.

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