There’s a long queue of students at driving schools in Singapore. The waiting time for taking up practical lessons at the Singapore Safety Driving Center in Woodlands and the ComfortDelGro Driving Center is from two to three months, Channel News Asia (CNA) reported.

At the Bukit Batok Driving Center, all slots for lessons are taken for the next six months. For those who want to reserve slots, the next open schedules are in February or March, according to CNA.

Would-be drivers are resorting to internet bots to reserve and book hands-on lesson slots, but the schools have banned their use and warned that slots reserved through bots would be delayed by three months.

Meanwhile, a different driving lesson has been conducted by behavioral neuroscientist Dr. Kelly Lambert from the University of Richmond in Virginia, USA.

The training was conducted in a lab and used mini vehicles designed by robotics professor John McManus and his students from Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, CNN reported, citing the scientists’ narrative of their work in The Conversation.

“We trained the rats step-by-step,” Lambert said. “Initially, they learned basic movements, such as climbing into the car and pressing a lever. But with practice, these simple actions evolved into more complex behaviors, such as steering the car toward a specific destination.”

“Unexpectedly, we found that the rats had an intense motivation for their driver training, often jumping into the car and revving the ‘lever engine’ before their vehicle hit the road,” she said, according to CNN.

The researchers concluded that the lab rats learned to drive due to their brain’s flexibility or so-called neuroplasticity that enabled them to acquire new skills.