18 Oct October 18, 2018 Jamal Al Sadah, Director of Vehicle Licensing of of RTA talking about the New Generation of Automotive Inspection RTA launches Mehboob — the virtual assistant, vehicle inspecting robot, self-driving taxi and commuter rewards programme at 38th Gitex Technology Week Dubai: Robots will soon help motorists detect faults in their cars as the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) goes high-tech with its vehicle inspection system. Unveiled at the 38th Gitex Technology Week on Sunday, the vehicle inspection robot is among a series of smart initiatives launched by the RTA, designed to make life easy for road users. Currently in a pilot phase, the robot will be installed at petrol stations and other public locations for access of the motorists. In the first phase, we will install these robots at petrol stations so that people can use it to detect faults in their cars and avoid going through any breakdown. This will also save people from going to workshops to check faults,” said Jamal Al Sa’adah, director of RTA’s Vehicle Licensing Department. The robots will interact with motorists directly without any intervention from any RTA staff, allowing motorists to follow a few simple steps to access the fault detection service. After choosing for the fault reading service on the robot’s interactive screen, the robot will direct you to insert a debit or credit card for payment, once payment is processed a slot will open in the machine and the robot will direct you to remove a dongle which will have to be inserted in the car for the robot to diagnose the problem in the vehicle. Once the dongle is inserted the robot takes a few minutes to read the car’s system and find faults. Once that is done it will direct the user to remove the dongle and put it back in the robot to analyse the data. It then asks the user for an email ID where the certificate of the diagnosis is sent,” said Al Sa’adah. He added that in the next stage, the RTA plans to use the robot for the annual vehicle inspections. Source: GN
