Yes, we mourn for e lady sales exec, & we're sad & angry
for wad happened.
However, if we calmly think bout it now,
e issue now is not so much how to arrest tat reckless driver,
but rather how to prevent further similar cases from happening
anymore.
One life's lost to reckless test-driving, surely nobody wants
anymore of it, ya?
Yep, there's such an electronical device call speed limiter,
& it does make sense to fit it on all e allocated test-drive
cars.
Yes, cause there will only be a batch of few of each new model
taken out
as test cars.
However e prob will be not all e car-distributors will gladly fit
it,
cause it won't make economical sense to them.
Again however, there's such thing call 2nd-hand cars,
& we cannot expect e 2nd-hand dealers to fit e device into
EVERY car
for e clients to test-drive? It doesn't make sense at all.
So there's tis loop-hole, & those jerks like tat guy out
there
can still go to 2nd-hand market & ease their itchy hands.
Hmm.. travelling on authorised route?
Mazda Motor has their own authorised route for test-drive,
yes.
In fact, all dealers & auto companies hav their own authorised
routes.
Tat stretch of wavy test-route which e accident happened
is an "under-construction" site with steel roads & lotsa curve
roads
It was one of e test-routes my company authorise for
customers
to drive to our workshop.
I would say it's freakin dangerous under normal road conditions
already,
& he's drivin a MX5 & speeding during PEAK hours.
But bein a 2nd-hand sales exec b4,
i would say 95% customers will follow e route instructed to
em.
Jus tat 5% incl white-collar workers, some newbie drivers some
even
Directors or CEO of companies, will try play punk wif us,
by tellin us they know e area better than us, &
"politely" requesting a longer (unauthorised) road such as
expressways to test out speeds betw 70kmh to 90kmh,
& stuffs like wheels alignments, etc,
& whether e engine vibrates or gets noisy at higher
speed.
All these r unavoidable, & we as sales exec been thru countless
times,
but most sales exec jus suck-thumb.
Most Sales exec will oblige e customers
& allow them their way,
thinkin e "Customers r always right" policy,
& also didn't want to offend e customers in fear of losing
this
sales opportunity.
Everyday as car sales exec, jus to earn a living,
we hav to outrightly put our lives in e hands of these drivers,
really.
Jus for tat few hundred bucks commission, we literally put our
lives at stake
everytime we go out for testdrives.
I feel for e lady & her family too.
The only thing i can think of is by forming a network among
dealers
for information sharing. Request their Identity Card to b kept in a
folder,
while they bring their license with em to test-drive. Dealers r not
to even
peek into e folder as it's confidential customers'
information.
If e customer fools around during test-drive, the auto-dealer
company
will hav e authority to note down e particulars of tat driver &
log it in e
shared network tat only authorised dealers will gain access. This
will warn
others of potentially dangerous drivers out there on test-drive
spree,
so next time e fellow enters another dealer, he'll be rejected e
rights to
test-drive, or otherwise, e sales execs can be more cautious of ppl
like him.
Jus my vague suggestion to authorities such as e Singapore
Automobile
Dealership Association & others.
