On the other hand, “It’s highly frowned upon and they request people not to follow examiners for the applicant and examiner’s safety during the drive test,” Quintero said.

“He advised it is not illegal and there is no policy or protocol where they would revoke an individual’s permit for following an examiner,” Quintero said. We ran this by California Highway Patrol Officer Juan Quintero of the Riverside CHP office, who then discussed this with a supervisor at the Riverside East DMV office. (Lavitoria’s daughter passed her test the following week and all was fine.) The DMV employee told our reader to practice driving with his daughter in their own neighborhood and said if he saw Lavitoria again, the DMV would revoke his daughter’s learner permit. The DMV employee responded that this was illegal and asked for our reader’s driver license, which the examiner wrote down. Lavitoria said he was observing the driving test.

Lavitoria wanted his daughter to see the what the driving test would be like.Īfter a few turns, the DMV employee exited his vehicle, approached our reader and asked what he was doing. Lavitoria has a teenage daughter who was days away recently from taking the driving test to get her license, so Lavitoria decided to take his daughter and follow – from a distance – a DMV examiner while he administered a driving test to someone else out of the Riverside East DMV office. Q: Aubrey Lavitoria of Moreno Valley asked if it’s illegal for a driver to follow a Department of Motor Vehicles examiner who is giving someone else a driving test on public streets.Ī: First, we’ll briefly explain this unusual query.

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