Malaysian lives are equally CHEAP

Malaysian lives are CHEAP Ever wonder why so many fatal accidents occur on Malaysian roads? Since 30 years ago, we have already surpassed Portugal and become the top ranking country with the highest number of deaths per 1000 population. We were previously number 4. Does anyone remember the times when we used to have many passengers 'stuffed' into a 7-seater van. That was one of the causes of road fatalities, mainly because Malaysians who drive such vans fail to understand that, every increase of one passenger in a vehicle warrants an extra 75% effort in braking power. The anticipation of braking distance even increase exponentially when you have a full load. If car manufacturers could have designed vans to seat a maximum of 7 people, they have a reason for that. So, stuffing a van with 15 people is likened to suicide. The trade minister and motor vehicles association during that period even suggest we build 'safer' vans, or redesign the shape of vans to 'reduce fatalities'. Ha Ha. Pertaining to this, one dumbhead minister also suggested we build 'stronger' buses when we had a lot of express bus crashes that took many lives away. As we know, express bus operators are a bunch of 'hard-up- for-money' bastards who could not care less for the lives of bus passengers. The companies actually bought third-or-fifth-or-ninth-hand buses from other countries and rebuild the exterior with low quality fibreglass (without proper chassis structure rigidity), put on low quality tyres and mechanical parts, and released those buses into service. Our road authorities know little about maintenance and roadworthiness, let alone the interior mechanical workings. They even know nothing about those cheap foreign labour who were employed as drivers. Without proper maintenance and motoring knowledge to boot, such express buses when driven (and thrashed) at suicidal speed, has a potential to kill. You are right, human lives are cheap, only worth as much as what the bus operators stand to earn. Besides bus operators, the general public also viewed their own lives as cheap items. They can afford to buy cars worth tens of thousands of ringgit, spend thousands on accessories to upgrade their cars, but when it comes to the only 4 points touching the road surface (the tyres), they choose the cheapest brands. That means their cars and lives are only worth as much as the 4 tyres connecting them to the ground.