Speed Governor
Speed Governor issue has resulted in strike of trucks and private buses - Are they are the only accident causing vehicles. What about high speed cars, bikes and SUVs? Are they not resulting in any accidents? Joy ride of these vehicles had made our roads deadly dangerous.
Problem is day by day the BHPs and CCs of vehicles that are introduced in India are increasing like anything. Bikes are moving from 100cc to 150cc and now 200+ CCs producing more than 13-14 bhps and cars are moving from 800cc to 1,300+ CCs producing in excess of 100bhp. In olden days, there was a strict control in India for the CCs and BHPs of the vehicles launched. M800 producing 35bhp itself was felt very powerful at that time, now it is the least. Yamaha RX100 producing 11bhp was considered very powerful, now most of the bikes in the markets produce that.
People in India do not have the discipline to handle these high powered vehicles. They drive recklessly resulting in increased number of accidents mostly which will turn fatal.
There should be a restriction to CCs and BHPs for the vehicles that are launched in India rather than enforcing a speed governor later. 800-1300 cc for cars and less than 150cc is enough for the conditions of Indian roads. What's the fun in having a car which reaches 200kmph with no road suitable to reach that speed. SwiftsSafety features of powerful cars should come in non powerful cars also. Nano is thankfully 35bhp and 650cc. Pulsars,Unicorns,Apaches as well as Safaris, Scorpios, Octavias,Optras etc have made our roads deadly dangerous. In earlier days, we didn't had so many powerful vehicles on our road and most of the vehicles were like utility vehicles to reach point B from point A. At that time we had less number of accidents and traffic jams. People could comfortably commute in Luna and TVS XL.
Introduction of speed Governors to Buses especially to Volvo buses will lead to increased number of cars on our highways. People will stop using the public vehicle and start driving their own car on highways since the journey time is longer. Volvo buses normally travels at 100kmph which will be governed whereas powerful Cars and SUVs which can zip at 150+ kmph will not have any restrictions.
Our Indian trucks, which are less torquey already struggle on our highways to carry the load. Speed governor will make it even more difficult. It is the empty trucks which are driven rashly. Speed checking at regular points with hidden speed cameras is the best way to deal with speed rather than speed Governors. Enforcing strict discipline will govern the speed. There is no speed checking as well as drunken driving testing in any of our highways. How much time it takes to get the speed Governor removed for a truck/bus driver?
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Enforcement is the key
Not an issue of speed
speed governors...
re: speed governors
re: speed governors
Yesh it did! after two days
1) no old vehicles to be
Reckless driving of Bangaloreans is the major cause for accident
speed governor
Issue raised by Vasant is no so simple. I might have interst in promoting speed govenrors but the following has tobe realised.
1. whether u make highways or superhighways, our social fabric is such that the villagers and labourers shall sue this road as their life line for going to hospitals, markets, workplaces, relative setc and along with will be two wheelers, cycles, motorcycles, tongas, buses, cars,trucks and all. With improvement in technology both roads and vehicles are getting faster. It is a known and proved fact that beyond a cetain speed the vehicle control looses and braking distance is too less to avoid any injury. Vasant does not know that we have 13 times accident and inury rate in road accidents than average developed world. In Andhra and Karnataka we kill over 10,000persons annually on road.
2. Trucks why the target as statistics have proved that over 80 % accidents are involving commercial vehicles. I can not prove but tell you drivers over stressed, underpaid, time bound are in a hurry, increase speed to increase thier rest periods during transportation. Buses do same, as Blue line buses in Delhi, no better than truckers. You must have realised when two motorcycles collide you can get injured but not killed. But when school buses or truck get involved,....
3. On their part rarely truck carries load as per design, (norm of about 50-100% overload) carry load within dimensions designed for, with carefree exensins done with steel angles extending to hit passerbyes without any fear. This over load results in imbalances, tippling, uncontrollable driving, congestion on the roads etc etc. Never so much by any passenger car or motorcycle.
Vasant plesae do somethinking before concluding. i can help you with cuttings of over a month from your city and find out if passenger cars or motorcycles have killed so many people.