Tuesday, November 08, 2005

this guy died when he flew out of the car at 200km/h
There are two things I would like to talk about, but I’m going to do them in two different posts. in this post I would like to examine Kuwaiti drivers and Kuwaiti traffic laws and norms. We all know that there are laws that have been placed to protect the rich and powerful. But there are other laws that are placed for our own protection. Traffic laws have nothing to do with the rich and powerful, but has everything to do with peoples safety. Kuwait has no shortage of written laws, it is the implementation part of traffic control that is questionable. Traffic police have proven to be incompetent in maintaining a low accident rate. YES, it has been proven that it is the traffic police that control the accident rate in a given population. WHY? Why do we have so many accidents? Because there is no one held responsible. If there is a slight percentage that a person would loose his job for not doing it, believe me they will do it. The key here is to actual have a person held responsible for the tens of thousands of deaths that have occurred due to human error. And it is not the minister of interior job, but it is his job to make sure the job is being done. Another critical issue rises when implementing the “responsibility theory”, we have to know what we are evaluating them on, if we evaluate them for writing tickets, all they would do is write tickets. But if we train them and teach them how to imply the theoretical teachings in the field, and have a clear understanding of what is expected of them in terms of outcome, we will see a vast improvement. when it comes to kuwaiti drivers, i prefer to plea the 5th

1 Comments:

Blogger teagirl said...

Scary.

10:46 PM  

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