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Safety experts against the Ministry of Transportation's initiative for a two-year test: "May cost human lives"

The intention to pass a licensing test once every two years was initially accepted with relief by car owners, but since then it has become clear that the actual savings are only tens of shekels a year.

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NEWS reveals the opinion of two of Israel's transportation experts on the proposal: "The level of risk for accidents will increase"

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Keenan Cohen

Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 7 p.m.

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The Ministry of Transportation's initiative to move to conducting licensing tests once every two years was initially received with a sense of relief by car owners in Israel.

The initiative began during the tenure of former Transport Minister Bezalel Smutrich, chairman of the National Union Party, and was supposed to help with the annual licensing test ceremony, one of the less pleasant experiences of owning a car.

But the sense of relief turned out to be premature. Car production in 2018, and the highest annual license fee will continue to be collected every year. as a result, the actual savings is a few dozen shekels, as the number of hours per year required them to invest in a car drivers license.

Executive Director green light, packed Kita, Estimates that "the decision to extend the length of time the state checks the condition of the vehicles from two to two years is dangerous, and may even create a situation in which real ticking bombs will travel on the road next to us."

He said, "The reality is that every second vehicle gets on the road when it is not working properly, some even drive with serious and dangerous safety deficiencies."

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Licensing institutes will be the main victims of the Ministry of Transportation's initiative (Photo: Kobi Liani)

The Green Light CEO added that “vehicle integrity is of great importance in reducing road accidents.

In the event of an emergency, the vehicle must be in good condition, and all systems must be in order to prevent road accidents or reduce the intensity of the collision and save the lives of passengers. "

However, those who are about to be harmed most by licensing institutes are significantly reduced. Recently, the Association of Licensing Institutions launched a move to thwart the initiative, in which it sought the attention of two senior transportation experts in Israel to the emerging proposal.

"Dilution of the 'test' may signal that importance is not attached to the issue"

The opinions of the two - Dr. Moshe Becker, scientific advisor and engineering in the field of transport and road safety, and Shmuel Ben-Ari, an engineer has an experience of over 50 years in the automotive sector and transport - reached Walla NEWS.

These opinions are are some points bright In a different light, the initiative of the Ministry of Transportation reveals the problematic aspects of it. Dr. Becker points to the first point, analyzing the expected increase in the number of vehicles in Israel in the coming years, including the increase in the number of aging vehicles on roads among low-tech populations and limited resources. .

"Lower safety control will result in more drivers and more vehicles moving on the roads, and their safety situation will provoke more involvement in road accidents," he wrote.

Dr. Becker also referred to the aspect of the message that the government will send when the regulation is changed: "At this stage, diluting the 'test' from time to time every two years may signal that the government does not attach full safety significance to this issue, hence the vehicle's health problems may worsen. The increase in road accidents is due to the effect of the malfunction of the vehicles. "

Traffic jams in Ayalon, following a checkpoint set up to enforce the closure (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The automotive engineer, Shmuel Ben-Ari, stated in the introduction to his opinion that "the licensing institutes constitute the supervising and inspecting arm of the Ministry of Transportation, thanks to the annual government tests conducted by the licensing institutes, and report their results online to the Ministry of Transportation." When leaving the test) of vehicles moving on Israeli roads. "

According to him, increasing the space in which the vehicles will be inspected once every two years will increase the likelihood that the level of safety of the vehicles will be harmed, as these will be treated for cost savings in garages with low training or technical capabilities and poor quality spare parts.

"This is especially serious in vehicles purchased by private owners from rental companies or factory vehicles. These vehicles have accumulated particularly high mileage while serving in these companies, (a figure acknowledged by the Ministry of Transport itself, as evidenced by the self-published sub-legislation documents) Whose ownership passes to private hands, the Ministry of Transportation intends to allow their owners to take a test once every two years.

By all means, in "aging" vehicles at a much faster rate than privately owned vehicles. "

"The Department of Transportation's decision is very bad news for road safety."

Police checkpoint in Petah Tikva (Photo: Reuven Castro)

As examples, Ben-Ari cites cases of excessively worn brakes and vehicle headlights that may be in good working order during the last licensing test, but fail to meet the required standard during the following two years.

In his estimation, it is precisely between the third and tenth year (the years to which the installation is aimed - KK) that the vehicles change ownership every few years, and it is precisely there that buyers will want to save on vehicle expenses.

Another point Ben-Ari points to is the issue of 'recalls' In the current situation, a vehicle for which a call for such a repair is open in the system will not be able to pass the annual licensing test without being taken care of. To this Ben-Ari also adds the issue of air pollution, which failure to monitor in licensing tests may result in polluting cars moving on the roads without supervision and monitoring. The

recommendations of Dr. Becker and Ben-Ari indicate that there is more harm than good.

"Amendment of Regulation 273, which now requires an annual vehicle test once a year to conduct the test once every two years, will increase the extent of defects in the vehicle," writes Dr. Becker. "The level of risk of accidents will increase, .

"Amendment of Regulation 273 will increase the extent of defects in the vehicle."

Ayalon North, last month (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Ben-Ari adds that "it is clear that the increased wear and tear on vehicle systems with their age and cumulative mileage requires the annual government test to be performed on vehicles over three years old and up to ten years as often as possible, and therefore, in my opinion should be left once a year."

"The decision of the Minister of Transportation, Miri Regev, is very bad news for road safety and does not save the public more than a few tens of shekels a year," says Kita.

"The state in fact removes responsibility for the repair of vehicles and passes it on to citizens. This is a bankruptcy of the Ministry of Transport and Road Safety. Such a regulation must not pass because it could cost human lives. At the same time, enforcement and testing of vehicle integrity must be increased by additional test vehicles. And professionals who will assess the defective and dangerous vehicles and get them off the road before a car accident occurs. "

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