Comments on: Car Ownership

By: sparsh

sparsh — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:53:09 +0000

I can’t understand one thing. Why would the safety concerns regarding a vehicle be affected if the vehicle a person owns is driven by himself or by a driver? The owner will be at a loss in case of an accident in both cases.

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By: Ravages

Ravages — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:05:29 +0000

Dude.
Theory, on face of it, seems strong. But think there are one or two counterpoints to it.
It’s in the interest of the chauffeur to keep the car he/she has been assigned safe. Especially for big rich/middle class family owned cars.
Owner driving is, if I am not wrong, a recent phenomenon. Cars where originally driven by specialist drivers – I think it is a carry over from the coach/carriage days. Rich people (who were the only ones who could afford the vehicle) weren’t expected and wouldn’t do something as lowly as drive their own vehicles.
The reason for rash driving on the part of the chauffeur person is as much a result of the incentive system (as you’ve mentioned – he had to get from A to B in the shortest time) as is a result of bad/insufficient roads. Correct me if I am wrong, but weren’t the roads in Suburban/outskirts Bangalore pretty bad compared to within the city? That was def the case in Chennai, and I posit, in most Indian cities. Most BPOs/IT companies set up their offices outside the main city (Whitefield in Bangalore. OMR/ECR/Sriperambudur in Chennai) where roads weren’t particularly broad, leading to accidents or traffic snarls.

Additionally, your trucks, long distance buses, bullock carts and the like used to ply within and around the city, leading to additional gridlocks. I think it was around 2000 that Chennai banned lorry traffic within city limits between 6 AM and 8 PM.

Ravikiran had written about solving the traffic problem earlier. Good, commutable roads from the city to the suburbs so the rich/middle class can move out leaving the poor to stay within the city and use local transport.

(Rambling comment. Sorry)

By: skimpy

skimpy — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:09:31 +0000

correlation. decline of bangalore has coincided with rapid influx of “outsiders”. most people don’t understand that correlation doesn’t imply causation.

By: skimpy

skimpy — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:08:27 +0000

i don’t think the proportion of immigrants is so much to have such an impact on the driving styles. i’d rather blame the cab drivers for it. and then there’s the increased traffic etc.

By: skimpy

skimpy — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:06:44 +0000

that’s there – if you are driving your father’s car you’ll be less careful than if you’re driving your car. but a driver driving your father’s car will be worse.

By: Mihir

Mihir — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:09:51 +0000

Sometimes i wonder why everytime someone talks of how bangalore has changed, the blame is conveniently shifted to the “outsiders”.

By: PS

PS — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:27:50 +0000

I think the average age of the driver in Blore has decreased. When I was young, my father would not let me ride his scooter saying I need to get a DL or at least an LL first. Now I see a lot of 14-15 year olds driving.

Moreover, people from such places as UP, Delhi, Bombay where traffic was traditionally rasher as you claim have migrated to Blore, the traffic here has gotten rasher as well… They must have brouhgt their habits with them

By: none none

none none — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:39:35 +0000

Interesting argument. What about the fact that the majority of new owners on Bangalore roads are young and tend to be atleast a wee bit more rash..