Official government website of the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 
His Excellency Prof. Dr. Abdulrahman bin Hamad Al-Dawood, President of the University, inspected the "University Driving School" project, which is the first school of its kind in the Qassim region that aims to provide education and training services on driving vehicles for women, as the decision to establish it was issued in response to the decision of the University to empower Saudi women and activate their role in society. The building for the school is about 1800 square meters and can accommodate more than 180 trainees at one time, and the completion rate of the project reached 95%.
Dr. Majid Al-Enezi, Supervisor of the University Driving School, said that the establishment of the school came within the university's endeavors to achieve a strategic goal, which is to serve issues related to women and families, as it has highly positive social and economic results, and to solve many of the obstacles that women face from difficulty in moving to and from their workplace or place of education, and aims to provide high-quality education and training services on driving vehicles for women and men, in addition to providing a distinct educational system and content, contributing to raising awareness about road safety and traffic safety among vehicle drivers, and providing a generation of happy female trainers.
Al-Enezi added that the building contains a special section of the Traffic Department to extract driver's licenses, a number of classrooms equipped with the latest technology, simulators and test rooms, 20 cars equipped for training with additional brakes and mirrors for trainers, in addition to administrative offices, a nursery for children and a medical clinic, where the possibility of the need to expand in the future and increase the capacity of the school was taken into account, which is estimated at 10 thousand square meters and accommodates more than 500 parking spaces for school visitors, in addition to 150 parking spaces for school employees.
Regarding the school's field, Al-Enezi stressed that the location of the school was chosen within the university campus in order to take advantage of the internal roads of the campus and use them for training to accommodate the largest number of trainees, in addition to the vast roads within the university campus, the training within the campus provides a safe environment for driving in a real reality unlike training in virtual fields, pointing out that the school field was designed by experts in traffic engineering with a field area estimated at 30,000 square meters and contains 21 traffic skills that test the trainee's driving skills.
Al-Enezi added that the approved curriculum for the school is the Amna Driving Education Program, which provides an integrated content of videos, advanced presentation tools, and the use of interactive educational means in education and training. The Amna program is an approved novice driver education program by Transport Canada and the General Directorate of Traffic in the Kingdom. The Amna program consists of 30 hours of education, including 2 hours in simulation labs, 8 hours in classrooms, and 20 hours of in-vehicle training, and the number of hours is adjusted to match the standards of the Traffic Department in the Kingdom, and the curriculum also includes training on automated devices.
The university also provided driving simulators at the school on the latest model that simulates driving a real car and consists of all the parts that consist of it inside the car, such as the driving chair, steering wheel, control panel, ignition key, and seat belt. The passenger is surrounded by screens that display an interactive virtual reality that simulates more than 45 driving scenarios, such as driving on highways It also simulates scenarios and different weather and geographical conditions such as rain or snow that the driver may be exposed to while driving, and one of the advantages of the device is that it provides instructions to the passenger interactively and provides the possibility of recording, following up and evaluating the level of the trainee in order to review and clarify the mistakes made by the trainee while driving.
Al-Enezi said that international companies operating several schools in North America were contracted to provide, develop and prepare preliminary tests to measure the suitability of candidates to become trainers and their ability to withstand work pressure, followed by the preparation of an intensive training program approved by the General Directorate of Traffic aimed at developing competent driving instructors capable of providing a driving curriculum in classrooms, simulation laboratories and in the vehicle.
