{"id":205205,"date":"2022-09-09T19:27:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T13:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=205205"},"modified":"2022-09-09T19:27:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T13:57:51","slug":"we-must-demand-safe-roads-and-not-just-more-airbags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/we-must-demand-safe-roads-and-not-just-more-airbags\/","title":{"rendered":"We must demand safe roads and not just more airbags"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article \u201cOur urban spaces need renewal, not new names<\/strong>\u201d<\/strong> published in <\/span>the Livemint <\/strong>on\u00a0<\/span>9th<\/sup>\u00a0September 2022<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 2 \u2013 Social Issues \u2013 Road accidents.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About car accident-related deaths and road safety in India.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The tragic death of former Tata Sons chairman in a car accident has turned the spotlight again on lax safety rules for car passengers in India.<\/p>\n

What are the challenges to road safety in India?<\/h5>\n

1)<\/strong> Road safety advocacy group SaveLife Foundation, a non-profit organization, has consistently flagged \u201cfatal\u201d corridors<\/strong> where a disproportionately high number of crashes and fatalities occur as a result of poor road engineering<\/strong>. The recent accident also highlights dubious engineering and design.<\/p>\n

2)<\/strong> Government aims to construct Highways at a speed of 50 km per day. But the government fails to focus on the quality and maintenance of these roads.<\/p>\n

3)<\/strong> Driving itself is an encounter with chaos on Indian roads, with rules that exist only on paper. Airbags and seat belts are a system that works in conjunction. But many people<\/p>\n

4)<\/strong> India\u2019s automotive industry has a record of delaying safety mandates on airbags and anti-skid braking systems. This is because they are trying to keep vehicles affordably priced in India.<\/p>\n

What can be done?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Must read: Rear guard action: Car accident-related deaths can be drastically reduced by the use of seat belts<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Indian tech-savvy consumers are grown enough to seek 5-star crash-test ratings. It shows the robustness of cars and hence their safety. But they need to strap themselves in a seat belt and encourage their family also irrespective of where they sit in the car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cOur urban spaces need renewal, not new names\u201d published in the Livemint on\u00a09th\u00a0September 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Social Issues \u2013 Road accidents. Relevance: About car accident-related deaths and road safety in India. News: The tragic death of former Tata Sons chairman in a car accident has… Continue reading We must demand safe roads and not just more airbags<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10501],"class_list":["post-205205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704830647},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}