To many people there is nothing wrong with the picture above. What is wrong with cramming as many people as possible into a Perodua Kancil. We see this everyday happening on the road all over Malaysia.
I could take a high hand approach and state everybody is guilty on this matter as we know that most people who buy a Perodua Kancil are those who come under the lower income group, who would welcome a roof over their heads to shield them from the sun and the rain. It is certainly better to own a Kancil rather than having your spouse having her hands full with junior 1 and 2 while trying to keep her balance on the kapchai.
But the above picture is a different matter altogether.
The point that I am trying to get across here is that most driving schools in Malaysia do not practice the very attitude that we want to instill in our young drivers. How many time have we seen the driving school instructors do not buckle up when driving or failed to use the indicator (lampu signal) when changing lanes or making a turn.
If the instructors themselves failed to practice what they are teaching their students to do on the road, then our hope for our drivers to be more courteous and safe on the road would just fade away, just like our hope to see the price of petrol go down significantly within the next few months despite oil price being at its lowest for quite some time.
