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Originally Posted by kavesh55 Three hundred forty pages and adding. What is being covered here maybe just the tip of the iceberg. It should ring alarm bells for all of us, if not the people really responsible.
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We are making it happen. We are responsible. We should stop pointing fingers and improve ourselves, one driver at a time and others will follow.
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I guess our road infrastructure is certainly growing, but do we have the road manners. Smooth roads does tempt people to speed especially after leaving a bottleneck. At most places you may find certain road surfaces acting in a way of throwing things that ply on them.
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The question should be, Do I have road manners? If all of us look inwards there will be episodes where we did not display manners whether it was on the highway or an intersection where the lights were not working or in the mall for the last visible parking slot. Manners just like charity begin at home. Let us start behaving and others will be shamed into following.
As for the bad roads, how many of us have actually taken the time out to write a letter to our local MLA/MLC/MP. I know I have not done so but I am going to start writing and urge that the rest of you do the same in your respective areas. This applies to all regardless of whether you are on the local areas voters list or not, nobody is going to take out the list and check but those letters reaching them day in and day out will hit a mark somewhere.
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The vehicles have got faster, but what about the tyres & the brakes. In a bid to cut costs car makers are offering thinner tyres. Powerful engines and thin tyres equation is simple. How many cars come with ABS as a standard option.
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The guys approving the less than safe designs are also from amongst us they are not strangers or exempt from the perils of driving. But then how many of us have made a noise about lack of basic safety features in the basic models. OK will not make a difference immediately but trust me you walk out a showroom saying I will buy the other competing car as it has better safety features will be heard at the next sales meeting and an increasing cacophony will certainly make an impact. It takes only one of these car manufacturers to be the turncoat the rest follow like docile sheep. A consumer has a lot of Potential energy in his/her hands it takes only a few words to convert that to Kinetic energy and then its showtime. Make a noise flood the forums and the social blog sites and the Auto magazines in boxes it will have an impact for sure.
On the other hand how many of us actually spend on available safety features even if we can afford to. Answer truthfully and you will know the path ahead.
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Finally its us who push both us and the machine to the max. One should appreciate the importance of safety and ofcourse life. if things cant be adopted they need to be enforced in the strictest ways.
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Great Idea, let us implement it in our own homes. let us refuse to start driving till both riders on a 2 wheeler are wearing helmets and all people in a four wheeler are buckled up.
I started doing this ages ago. irritated a lot of people including my parents, miscellaneous uncles and aunties and wives and children of some of my most dear friends including the friends but I persisted. Now a days either they refuse to ride with me or buckle up quietly rather than miss movies,flights(factual) arrive late at their destinations etc.etc. DO this and God knows how many lives you will save directly or indirectly
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So many lives lost something absolutely irreplaceable.
Driving discipline is what is necessary but it should strart from strengthening the RTO system. Many have received their licence by just making a simple signature.
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True, I got my license at 16 as a wedding gift for me amongst others as the marriage was between the families of very high ranked bureaucrats. The wedding photographer delivered our snaps to the PS and we signed the D/Ls after they were put in our hands. One of my many social uncles who was a pretty high ranking official with the traffic police smiled when he saw the license at the end of its 5 year tenure as the inspector got it converted to a card one while I enjoyed keema roti from the dhaba next to the RTO.
Ten years later the uncle having retired, the local AA came in handy for replacement of the original license which was in tatters and while I was waiting with the Inspector they were conducting colour blindness tests for HCV drivers and guys who could not see the colour red between the myriad patterns were helped along. Not seeing Green is something the horns will make you aware of but not being able to see red and still driving along....
Another 10 and I hit 40 so went in again. Surprise surprise now they actually fail you for not being able to recognize road signs most of which I have not seen on our roads in the past 24(26) years of driving. The agents are more or less gone but I met someone who I know is a lawyer and he was running a shanty posing as a Doctor validating the medicals regarding eye sight, hearing etc etc. The guy is a within the same complex and told me he makes more from this trade than he was earlier making as a lawyer! He was very upset with me for having gone to a real doctor for my checkup.
I am not merely putting out stories here but just opening up the window to show you and remind myself of the scrap that lies accumulated inside us and the system of which we are but an integral part. However, let us make a start to clean up the mess one person at a time. Let us all do our bit and see the difference it will make in another 10 or maybe 20 but have faith in yourselves it will make a difference one day.
That snap of the i10 has had such an impact that I just could not stop myself from typing all of the above but I am glad I did as I believe I have my agenda for the next 10.
How about the rest of you?