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This really is a great opportunity for an enterprising youngster or a foreigner to start a consulting company to bring rules into the driving system. The way t
by NTDF9 8y ago
This really is a great opportunity for an enterprising youngster or a foreigner to start a consulting company to bring rules into the driving system.
The way to approach this is:
1. Create a company, build a small DB of rules in UK (the closest road cousin to India), Australia and US. Maybe Hongkong to understand dense cities
2. Get estimates of costs required to stripe lanes, put traffic lights, green road signs
3. Make a list of 10 rich cities/municipalities. Approach their roadworks dept and propose a plan
4. Profit
Developing countries these days are willing to throw money at this. They just want someone to do it efficiently and at low cost.
To see how this worked before, look at Jakarta, Indonesia.
- mlboss 8y agoI am not sure if you are joking. There are road signs, stripe lanes and everything else that you mentioned in India. There are laws for everything. The problem is nobody follows them. What is missing is enforcement of those laws. No startup can do that. It has to come from government.
- NTDF9 8y agoI'm not joking. A major part of reckless driving there is just that no one knows what lanes are meant for. Having more striped lanes, better traffic lights and yes, better enforcement on wheels would help. But an entire population wouldn't learn what it means to drive in a lane unless there are real lanes. Simple as that.
- nilsocket 8y agoI don't think it ever works out. The problem is with people and everybody are in a hurry. Following traffic rules makes it slow, building bigger roads is not possible because lot of shops from streets are to be closed, even though the land belongs to government's. People follow traffic signals only when there is a traffic police, rest of the time they don't. Accident rates are much normal, they don't happen in high rate considering such a huge population.