Touch wood, recently, Lta with a statistic of accident rate…
told taxi companies that there is a huge increase in taxi
accidents, be it self desruction or other faults, there is a need
for taxi drivers, who ply the road all day long to be more
vigilant.
This is not good news for taxi companies, why? because insurance
is good to increase more and more, the term of references on why
accident rate increased, be it minor or major are as follow
1. Drivers getting older (night vision poor, reaction also
poor)
2. High Horse power auto taxis (zoom zoom)
3. 250km per shift, tiring taxi drivers
4. High cost of living leading to Taxi drivers plying on the road
longer for survivor
5. Paxs flag down taxis at dangerous location
6. Most modern taxis lack rear vision, lots of blind spot
7. Rental and fuel too high leading to adding pressure at taxi
drivers
8. Grab, easy and GPS led to taxi
concentration lost by keep viewing or listening to gadgets
9. Taxi drivers health deterioriate faster than many other trade
leading to suddenly black out, stroke, tireness etc
10. Too many gadget from MDT to cashless
terminal to few hp, talkies, gps, ipad, tabs…
Do you know what will happen when cdg add in all these gadgets
as shown above, there will be more sensor, more indicator…end up
taxi driver become airplane pilot, so many gadgets to press and
key…phuixxx…
Cdg adding all these is to hold the insurance, please
LTA and perhap increase rental, at the end of
the day, drivers the end user will suffer.
You all must understand that what you are paying rental down
include the high COE, insurance and nearly
all the gadgets provided by yr taxi companies
