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Why Won’t India Inc Teach Its Motorists How To Drive?
The country is only interested in making money off its citizens aspirations
Introduction
Indians are buying SUVs left, right, and center nowadays. Sure, everyones upgrading their cars to bigger and better ones. That’s the larger trend in the overall car market. But an even more significant trend seems to be in the shift towards SUVs and MUVs from hatchbacks or sedans. Even people who’ve never even owned cars before are shooting straight for the stars by purchasing big SUVs as their first cars. Looks like the transport deparment is having a windfall with these many vehicle registrations every single day.
But how much of that “windfall” are the authorities willing to invest in driver education, and educating people how to operate such large vehicles all on the roads at the same time?
0. Zilch. Nada.
Driver education is a foreign concept in India. Just purchase a vehicle, get your license by shelling out cash to an RTO agent, and begin embarking on long highway trips seems to be the mantra here. Seems like the authorities are only interested in making money off of its citizen’s aspirations to own high end vehicles and their cravings for long interstate drives, and have absolutely no intentions of teaching them safe, disciplined driving while doing…
