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I can separate the two main kinds. Those who drive to their destinations and those who"take a drive" to their destination.
The raison d’être of a COE policy is that one pays for the occupation of road space that allows a reasonable speed of travel. Fair enough. But allowing arrogant or plain stupid drivers to deprive others of that is just ridiculous even though they had paid for their COES!
How many times had you came across a situation of a slowdown in a three lane because a commercial vehicle is on the extreme left lane, a female drive in the middle and a motherfucker who just overtook only to drive on the extreme right lane at the same speed.
Are drivers aware of the fact that vehicle speedometers are optimistic by an average of 10%? That means when your speedometer indicates 100 km/ph, your actual speed is 90 kmph?
And the Traffic Police had acknowledged that they allow an extra 10kmph for overtaking. That translates to driving at 100kmph which in turn means a speedometer indication of 110kmph to overtake but to slow down back to the legal speed of 90 kmph once that is achieved. And yes back to the inner lane of course!
The raison d’être of a COE policy is that one pays for the occupation of road space that allows a reasonable speed of travel. Fair enough. But allowing arrogant or plain stupid drivers to deprive others of that is just ridiculous even though they had paid for their COES!
How many times had you came across a situation of a slowdown in a three lane because a commercial vehicle is on the extreme left lane, a female drive in the middle and a motherfucker who just overtook only to drive on the extreme right lane at the same speed.
Are drivers aware of the fact that vehicle speedometers are optimistic by an average of 10%? That means when your speedometer indicates 100 km/ph, your actual speed is 90 kmph?
And the Traffic Police had acknowledged that they allow an extra 10kmph for overtaking. That translates to driving at 100kmph which in turn means a speedometer indication of 110kmph to overtake but to slow down back to the legal speed of 90 kmph once that is achieved. And yes back to the inner lane of course!