MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) — The new year brings a big change for Wisconsin’s high school driver’s education students.
The road test waiver for 16 and 17-year-olds planning to get a driver’s license will end in the state when 2023 ends.
Data from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation shows a total of 169,000 students bypassed the test since May of 2020.
Though follow-up data from the DOT found that those who waived the test ended up getting slightly fewer citations and caused slightly fewer crashes than those who took the test, the Wisconsin Legislature moved to end the waiver at the end of the year.
The transportation department says they’ve been expecting an increased demand in road tests with the end of the waiver, so there’s no backlog in the scheduling of road tests over the coming weeks.
