RTA Uses AI to Monitor Driving Lessons in Dubai Training Vehicles

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has implemented an artificial intelligence-based Smart Monitoring System across driving school vehicles as part of its ongoing push toward digital transformation. The system uses AI-powered cameras to monitor both instructors and trainees in real time, enabling oversight through the Licensing Intelligent Operations Centre and inspectors’ smart tablets.

Inspection time has been reduced from 20 minutes to just one minute since the system's deployment, while detection of violations has increased fivefold. In the seven months following its introduction, the system recorded 1,734,790 training sessions involving 245,764 trainees, 14 times the volume monitored over the same period the previous year.

Each training vehicle is fitted with smart cameras powered by machine learning and computer vision. These cameras automatically flag a range of infractions, including mobile phone use, failure to wear seat belts, driving outside approved training zones, and breaches of professional conduct such as eating, drinking, sleeping, or failing to wear the prescribed uniform.