{"id":332380,"date":"2025-08-10T05:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T05:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/332380\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T05:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T05:41:10","slug":"what-fresh-hell-driving-test-slots-in-london-are-being-swarmed-with-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/332380\/","title":{"rendered":"What fresh hell? Driving test slots in London are being swarmed with bots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of this &#8211; the closures, the bots, the black market &#8211; is eroding trust in the system. And frankly, I\u2019m at breaking point. I\u2019ve spent years working hard, contributing to the city, supporting my community, supporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/comment\/nda-abuse-workplace-harassment-women-equality-b1238521.html\" title=\"Opinion - Does your workplace feel like a boys&#039; club? You&#039;re not alone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diversity initiatives<\/a> in my profession, and trying to play by the rules. But this experience has made me ask, is it even worth trying to do things the right way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All of this &#8211; the closures, the bots, the black market &#8211; is eroding trust in the system.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[32374,748,47605,50699,393,4884,257,119242,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-332380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-bots","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-driving-test","11":"tag-dvsa","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-queue","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115002873419650427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}