Malaysia & Hong Kong(or probably world)'s Highway Drivers!!

I am terribly dissapointed with the drivers on highway of Malaysia and Hong Kong (since I used these 2 only). Their on the road attitutes are unforgiving and downright crazy. They complain all the time about collisions are caused by external factors (such as road condition, weather etc.) but in reality, majority of the collisions are caused by drivers themselves. Since I used the services of highway all the time, here are the top 5 reasons why collisions happens.

Number 5: headlight off during rain.

From my observation, majority of drivers on highway do not turn on their headlight even when we have heavy rain and darken environment. Even worse is when they turn on their dashboard light and not the headlight. What's the point? saving electricity? or just too plain stupid to notice that other cars (especially cars in front of you) may not be able to see you clearly?

Number 4: reckless heavy vehicle drivers.


This one is directed to heavy vehicle drivers such as lorry drivers. Do you know you are relatively slower and bigger than everything else on the highway so can you stay on the left all the time? What's the reason to overtake? Save few minutes? Besides, for bus drivers, do you know that buses are considered as heavy vehicle as well? can you do what lorry drivers should do?


Number 3: Signals lights

It's ok to overtake when the situation is safe but can you give some signals to other vehicle by flashing you signal lights. How hard is it to push the black cylinder on the back of your steering wheel? Based of my observation, more than 95% of overtake in highway of Malaysia and Hong Kong do not flash their signal lights when they are overtaking.

Number 2: Overtaking

It's not ok to overtake when the situation is not safe (safe to overtake = no vehicle is 2 seconds in front or behind of you on the right/outside lane). It's not ok to overtake from the left. It's not ok to overtake and block ambulances. However, highway drivers do it all the time. How much time can be safe by overtaking a car? How sure are you that you can overtake safely? Why gamble lifes of you, your love one and other drivers simply to save 5 minutes?

Number 1: Speed

Everybody knows higher speed = lower reaction time = more likely to have collision = more likely to have more severe collision. You may think that your reaction time is fast and relatively safer when drive fast but you can always do better if drive slowly. Which one is more important, save 5 minutes or safe arrival? altough the chance of collision may be small but why take the chance? the opportunity cost of driving fast is too high that probably only stupid people will choose to do it.

Of course other attitute problems not mentioned here can also cause collision but these are the 5 that happens most often from my observation. The biggest problem for highway safety is attitute problem can be on everyone regardless of their race, religion, education background, work, gender etc.

So did you do any of those actions and if you do, ask yourself, it is worthy?