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| Perodua Alza become Perodua Myvi; Safety Issue | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 3 2010, 08:35 PM (2,447 Views) | |
| lookw | Apr 3 2010, 08:35 PM Post #1 |
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Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image What do you said about this ？ :unsure :huh :nono :blink |
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| yeong | Apr 3 2010, 08:43 PM Post #2 |
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Accident like this, Avanza also become Yaris. God bless those involved. |
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| kiasi | Apr 4 2010, 10:21 AM Post #3 |
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but at least avanza taller than alza, can say a bit safe. but also depend wat vehicle hit the back, if it's lorry or SUV or even hit by kancil in high speed, also same.... |
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| mhwoon | Apr 4 2010, 10:46 AM Post #4 |
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Huh...camera angle for picture no.4 looks like alza become smart4two. The whole main chassis bengkok already...total lost. |
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| SK | Apr 4 2010, 08:48 PM Post #5 |
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3rd row passengers is at high risk in all mid size MPV. |
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| riema4sya | Apr 5 2010, 09:32 AM Post #6 |
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while driving i'm always alert..its good to look forward :thumbup ...but much better to have a look at your rear mirror :mellow |
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| rezaz | Apr 5 2010, 09:36 AM Post #7 |
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look very soft,like milo tin, |
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| rwd | Apr 5 2010, 01:59 PM Post #8 |
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nowaday they need to make the car soft to absorb the impact during crash .... pro and con driving really need tolerate, concentration and estimation ... sometime we drive carefully but others not... the best is keep driving distance and try the best not to cut queue ...if really need to, show signal (not the international finger signal okayyyyyy) :boo Here are some information i learn from internet, wish to share with you and together we learn to handle driving stress :yes_sir Why Driving is Stressful Driving in traffic routinely involves events and incidents. Events are normal sequential maneuvers such as stopping for the light, changing lanes, or putting on the brakes. Incidents are frequent but unpredictable events. Some of these are dangerous and frightening, like near-misses, while others are merely annoying or depressing, like missing one's turn or being insulted by a motorist. Driving events and incidents are sources of psychological forces capable of producing powerful feelings and irrational thought sequences. Driving is a highly dramatic activity that millions of people perform on a routine daily basis. The drama stems from high risk and unpredictability. Driving has two conflictual structural components--predictability and unpredictability. Both are present all of the time. Predictability, like maintaining steady speed in one's lane, creates safety, security, and escape from disaster. Unpredictability, like impulsive lane changes without signaling, creates danger, stress, and crashes. For many people driving is linked to the value of freedom of locomotion. On the one hand they get into cars and drive off where they please, the very symbol of freedom and independence. But on the other hand, as they are ready to take off into the open, they encounter restrictions and constrictions, preventing them from driving as they wish due to regulations and congestion. The following list identifies 15 widely known conflictual aspects of driving that act as stressors. These are emotional challenges that are common occasions for expressing hostility and aggressiveness on highways and streets. 1. Immobility: Most of the body during driving remains still and passive, not like walking where the entire body exerts effort and remains continuously active. Tension tends to build up when the body is physically restricted and constricted. 2. Constriction: Motor vehicles are restricted to narrow bands of highway and street lanes. In congested traffic, one's progress is inevitably going to be continuously blocked by numerous other cars. Being thwarted from going forward when you expect to, arouses the emotion of restriction and constriction, and along with it, anxiety and the desire to escape from the constriction. This anxiety and avoidance prompts drivers to perform risky or aggressive maneuvers that get them and others into trouble. 3. Regulation: Driving is a regulated activity, which means that government agencies and law enforcement officers get to tell drivers how fast to drive where, and how. Cars and trucks have powerful engines capable of going faster than what is allowed--ever. Drivers are punished for violating these regulations which they are responsible for knowing and obeying. This imposition, though lawful and necessary, arouses a rebellious streak in many people, which then allows them to regularly disregard whatever regulations seem wrong to them at the time or in the mood they are in. 4. Lack of control: Traffic follows the laws that govern flow patterns like rivers, pipes, blood vessels, and streaming molecules. In congested traffic, the flow depends on the available spaces around the cars, as can be ascertained from an aerial view such as a traffic helicopter, or from a bridge above the highway. When one car slows down, hundreds of other cars behind run out of space and must tap their brakes to slow down or stop altogether, as in gridlock. No matter how one drives, it's not possible to beat the traffic waves, whose cause or origin starts miles from where you are. This lack of control over what happens is frustrating, stress producing, and tends to lead to venting one's anger on whoever is around--another driver, a passenger, a pedestrian, a construction worker, the government. 5. Being put in danger: Cars are loved by their owners and they are expensive to fix. Even a scratch is stress producing because it reduces the car's value and is expensive to repair. Congested traffic filled with impatient and aggressive drivers creates many hair raising close calls and hostile incidents within a few minutes of each other. Physiological stress is thus produced, along with many negative emotions--fear, resentment, rage, helplessness, bad mood, and depression. 6. Territoriality: The symbolic portrayal of the car has tied it to individual freedom and self-esteem, promoting a mental attitude of defensiveness and territoriality. Motorists consider the space inside the car as their castle and the space around the car as their territory. The result is that they repeatedly feel insulted or invaded while they drive, lulling them into a hostile mental state, even to warlike postures and aggressive reactions to routine incidents that are suddenly perceived as skirmishes, battles, or duels between drivers. For many motorists, driving has become a dreaded daily drudge, an emotional roller coaster difficult to contain and a source of danger and stress. 7. Diversity: There are about 200 million licensed drivers in North America today, and they represent a diversity of drivers who vary in experience, knowledge, ability, style, and purpose for being on the road. These social differences reduce our sense of predictability because drivers with different ability and purpose don't behave according to the expected norms. The peace and confidence of motorists is shaken by events that are unexpected, and driving becomes more complex, more emotionally challenging. Diversity or plurality increases stress because it creates more unpredictability. 8. Multi-tasking: The increase in dashboard complexity and in-car activities like eating, talking on the phone, checking voice e-mail, challenge people's ability to remain alert and focused behind the wheel. Drivers become more irritated at each other when their attention or alertness seems to be lacking due to multi-tasking behind the wheel. Multi-tasking without adequate training increases stress by dividing attention and reducing alertness. 9. Denying our mistakes: Driving is typically done by automatic habits compiled over years, and this means that much of it is outside people's conscious awareness. Typically drivers tend to exaggerate their own "excellence," overlooking their many mistakes. When passengers complain or, when other drivers are endangered by these mistakes, there is a strong tendency to deny the mistakes and to see complaints as unwarranted. This denial allows drivers to feel self-righteous and indignant at others, enough to want to punish and retaliate, adding to the general hostility and stress level on highways. 10. Cynicism: Many people have learned to drive under the supervision of parents and teachers who are critical and judgmental. We don’t just learn to manipulate the vehicle; we also acquire an over-critical mental attitude towards it. As children we're exposed to this constant judgmental behavior of our parents who drive us around. It's also reinforced in movies portraying drivers behaving badly. This culture of mutual cynicism among motorists promotes an active and negative emotional life behind the wheel. Negative emotions are stress producing. 11. Loss of objectivity: Driving incidents are not neutral: there is always someone who is considered to be at fault. There is a natural tendency to want to attribute fault to others rather than to self. This self-serving bias even influences the memory of what happened, slanting the guilt away from self and laying it on others. Drivers lose objectivity and right judgment when a dispute comes up. Subjectivity increases stress by strengthening the feeling that one has been wronged. 12. Venting: Part of our cultural heritage is the ability to vent anger by reciting all the details of another individual's objectionable behavior. The nature of venting is such that it increases by its own logic until it breaks out into overt hostility and even physical violence. It requires motivation and self-training to bring venting under control before it explodes into the open. Until it's brought under conscious control, venting is felt as an energizing "rush" and promotes aggressiveness and violence. Nevertheless, this seductive feeling is short-lived and is accompanied by a stream of anger-producing thoughts that impair our judgment and tempt us into rash and dangerous actions. Repeated venting takes its toll on the immune system and acts as physiological stress with injurious effects on the cardio-vascular system (Williams and Williams, 1993). 13. Unpredictability: The street and highway create an environment of drama, danger, and uncertainty. In addition heat, noise and smells act as physiological stress and aggravate feelings of frustration and resentment. Competition, hostility, and rushing further intensify the negative emotions. The driving environment has become tedious, brutish, and dangerous, difficult to adjust to on the emotional plane. 14. Ambiguity: Motorists don't have an accepted or official gestural communication language. There is no easy way of saying "Oops, I'm sorry!" as we do in a bank line. This allows for ambiguity to arise: "Did he just flip me off or was that an apology?" It would no doubt help if vehicles were equipped with an electronic display allowing drivers to flash pre-recorded messages. Lack of clear communication between motorists creates ambiguity, which contributes to stress. 15. Undertrained in emotional intelligence: Traditionally, driver education was conceived as acquainting students with some general principles of safety, followed by a few hours of supervised hands-on experience behind the wheel, or on a driving simulator. Developing sound judgment and emotional self-control were not part of the training, even though these goals were mentioned as essential. Most drivers today are untrained or under-trained, in cognitive and affective skills. Cognitive skills are good habits of thinking and judgment. Affective skills are good habits of attitude and motivation. Drivers thus lack the necessary coping abilities such as how to cool off when angered or frustrated, or how to cooperate with the traffic flow and not hinder it. This lack of training in emotional intelligence (Goleman, 1995) creates high stress conditions for most drivers. It is common to relate aggressiveness to social and environmental factors, in addition to individual personality factors. For instance, congestion on highways and anonymity in cars interact with faulty attitudes and inadequate coping skills to produce aggressive traffic behavior under certain identifiable critical conditions. These apparent triggering conditions are accidental because they are unpredictable, and involve symbolic meaning for the dignity or self-worth of the interactants who may later report having felt insulted or threatened. It is part of popular psychology to call these provocative and dramatic conditions "triggers" as in, "It's not my fault. He provoked me. It's his fault. He made me do it." The trigger theory of anger serves to absolve the perpetrator from some or all of the responsibility for the aggression or violence. Here the attackers see themselves as the victims through a self-serving speech act (Searle, 1969) by which they escape culpability and opprobrium. It is common for road ragers to show no remorse for their assault and battery, seeing what they did as justified and deserved. Tips for Driving Without Stress Feed Your Head Listen to books on tape — the self-help kind or that classic novel you always meant to read. And note that praying, repeating affirmations or meditating — with your eyes open, of course! — have all been proven to lower blood pressure, enhance memory and increase creativity, says Kathleen Hall, Ph.D., founder of The Stress Institute in Atlanta. Another option: Tune in to a stand-up comedy CD. Laughter boosts circulation by 22 percent, according to University of Maryland researchers. Enjoy the View“Look for striking or unusual sights while you drive,” advises job coach Kate Larsen, author of Progress Not Perfection. “What have you never noticed before?” It could be something as simple as a bird flock forming a perfect “V,” or a pink sky at sunset. “You’ll increase your sense of wonder,” says Larsen, “which takes your mind off the mundane.” When you get home, make a note of what you’ve seen and review your notes whenever discontentment sets in. Use Common Scents Essential oils — soaked into a cotton ball — have major mood-regulating powers, says Hall. For alertness, sniff peppermint, eucalyptus or citrus oil; to calm down, try lavender or chamomile. (And if you need to stay motivated, pop a stick of cinnamon or peppermint gum!) Meanwhile, Funky to Fabulous author Eli Davidson “triggers happy emotions” by stuffing her coffee-cup holder with fresh-cut gardenias, freesias and orange blossoms. Attract Positive Energy“ A peaceful car means a peaceful journey,” says Chicago feng shui instructor Sharon Weinstein. Intensify your focus by removing car-seat clutter, and mount a soothing-scene photo on the passenger-side visor to remind yourself there’s more to life than traffic. You might also tie a blue ribbon around your rearview mirror, suggests Weinstein. “Blue represents water, and the perfect state of mind — flowing and clear.” Finally, scrub your windows: “It allows chi [life energy] to enter from the outside.” Drive “Om” A little driver’s-seat yoga increases blood flow, works out kinks (physical and mental) and maintains joint flexibility. At red lights, try simple neck, shoulder, ankle and glute exercises. “Or do them in the driveway before you take off,” Hall advises. Pick up the Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga audio CD for the lowdown on car-friendly moves. Edited by rwd, Apr 5 2010, 03:35 PM.
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| ongkh | Apr 10 2010, 09:05 PM Post #9 |
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bro lookw, how was the accident happened ?? where does it took place ?? too pity w/ the new alza owner.......... total lost......... 70% - 80% payment of car price. ( dunno when can fully claim from the insurance comp )..... :unsure :unsure |
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| SK | Apr 10 2010, 10:18 PM Post #10 |
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Usually owner have to top up money to settle bank loan when it declared total lost to the car if it's quite new with long repayment. One of my colleague have to pay Rm3k for his 2 years+ old total lost Myvi recently and lost his downpayment + all installment paid. |
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| lookw | Apr 11 2010, 05:51 PM Post #11 |
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Actually is forward from other chinese forum.............. :me_stupid The main point to post & paste here is to remind all driver about their driving habit................. :mellow |
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| lookw | Apr 11 2010, 05:55 PM Post #12 |
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My friend also having the Myvi accident and the claim value is about RM 20k+ done by Perodua SC |
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| ongkh | Apr 11 2010, 08:31 PM Post #13 |
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oic........ so this accident may not happened in jb. driving habit......... to play safe........ slow & steady....... :me_stupid :me_stupid :me_stupid |
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| SK | Apr 11 2010, 08:47 PM Post #14 |
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According to Bro Bigmc, he saw similar accident near Kesas interchange, not sure whether its the same case. |
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| ongkh | Apr 11 2010, 08:58 PM Post #15 |
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the new alza owner surely...... :fulltears :fulltears :fulltears non-stop...... day & nite........ bc his alza going to be ''total lost'' ===>>> malay always said this : malang tidak berbau |
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