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Service and sales workers · code 5165

Driving instructors

Driving instructors teach people how to drive motor vehicles. Tasks include - (a) instructing students under actual driving conditions, and explaining and demonstrating the operation of brakes, clutch, gear selection, automatic transmission, signals and lights; (b) teaching road traffic regulations; (c) teaching road craft and road safety; (d) advising students when they are ready to undergo driving examination; (e) advising on and teaching advanced driving techniques required for emergency situations; (f) illustrating and explaining handling and mechanical operation of motor vehicles and driving techniques, using blackboard diagrams and audiovisual aids. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Driving instructor Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Flying instructor - 3153

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 146 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • driving instructor

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

79.5
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 20.5 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 20.5 = 79.5

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

29.2
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

17.6
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 26.9 · hand skill 19.7 · cramped spaces 6.3 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 29.2 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 24.5, while the average is 20.5. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 24.5

    Teaching road craft and road safety

    Very Low
  2. 23.5

    Teaching road traffic regulations

    Very Low
  3. 21.5

    Advising students when they are ready to undergo driving examination

    Very Low
  4. 20.5

    Advising on and teaching advanced driving techniques required for emergency situations

    Very Low
  5. 17

    Instructing students under actual driving conditions, and explaining and demonstrating the operation of brakes, clutch, gear selection, automatic transmission, signals and lights

    Very Low
  6. 16

    Illustrating and explaining handling and mechanical operation of motor vehicles and driving techniques using blackboard diagrams and audiovisual aids.

    Very Low

6 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

One Australian job matches this one closely, so this is about as reliable as it gets here.

AI helps you
65
AI does it for you
33

Helping wins by 32 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 4512

Compared with similar jobs

There are 39 jobs in the “Service and sales workers” group, averaging 74.3. This one is above that.