Roads to be 3% safer for only RM50 million

Another brilliant attempt to make our roads safer for all motorists and passengers -Super safe roads for everyone.

Seems that 8% of the road accidents are caused by the roads and related stuff (such as lighting, U-turns, potholes, etc). And we are going to spend some RM50 million to improve these roads with the objective of reducing this cause to less than 5% of the accidents. (Just to digress, we can also increase numbers for the other causes and thereby reduce this cause as a percentage! hah!)

Not that this is bad at all. It is just that we should also look at the other 92%!!

From where I come from, if you intend to spend even RM50 (see, no M) to act on cause A(which accounts for some 8% of a problem), you may also want to consider how to address the other 92%. After all, if you can reduce 10% of the other 92% (some 9%), its effect is more than eliminating the entire cause A.

Maybe it is not in my department (or my interest) to reduce the other causes? But someone jolly well should consider spending some decent money on the other causes (42 % due to driver attitude and 48% due to mechanical failure).

Imagine if we can improve driver attitude? Based on the same maths, if we can spend some 50M to improve something worth 8%, we should also consider (and easily justify) spending RM250M to improve the 42% (driver attitude) and another RM250M to reduce mechanical faults.

Not that we do not value lives. Just that we should also allocate a reasonable amount to the other causes.

Which comes back to what I have in mind.

I'm going to get a concession to start a franchise called DAIS. It stands for Driver Attitude Improvement Schools. Then seek government funding to the tune of RM250M (plus/minus a few million). Get all drivers to come in for attitude test every 5 years (for a RM100 fee), and more frequently for those involved in accidents. (Maybe we'll even give a frequent offender discount?)

Erm.. maybe I should also start some kind of education program (grant of 250M?) to teach people how to prevent about mechanical failures? It's called PMS (yes, periodic too) Preventive Maintenance School.

Someone said "A quarter billion here, a quarter billion there. Soon we will be talking serious money."

I wonder if anyone is going to steal my idea?