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    Road sign literacy still low in Indian 2Wheeler riders

    • According to Honda Road Sign IQ survey, 78% of Indian 2Wheeler riders cannot recognise even 50% of the road signs!

    • Within the cities, Mumbai emerged as the most aware city with 79% two-wheeler riders able to correctly identify half of the road safety signs, followed by Pune (63%) and Bengaluru (41%).

    • The survey re-affirms the need for greater Education within the 3Es of Road Safety (Enforcement, Engineering & Education) as nearly 80% of Indian 2Wheeler riders are still un-aware about the difference between cautionary and mandatory road signs.

    • As more and more women are now becoming empowered riders, Indian women are more road sign literate than their male counterparts. Nationally, 26% of women interviewed were recognised half the road signs, while the corresponding figure for men was 21% (despite men being majority riders even today).


    Educated young India leads awareness of road signs, though by a small margin!

    • Within the age groups, 20 to 24-year-olds are most aware of the national road signs (31% aware of half the signs) while only 18% of the respondents in 25 to 44 age bracket could identify half the road signs. Interestingly, 30% those over 45 of years could also identify half the signs.


    Good news is safety is now in Indian minds but we still have accident inviting habits

    • Indian riders are giving importance to their own safety! Majority 63% of the riders interviewed said that they wear helmet for their own safety. Enforcement by state authorities (16% admitted they wear a helmet to avoid fines) and family insistence (due to family pressure another 16% wear helmet) are the other two biggest motivators for Indian riders to wear helmets.

    • Most Indian riders understand importance of a helmet but only when they themselves ride a two-wheeler. 55% riders risk their lives by not wearing helmet when they are pillions.

    • 51% of riders interviewed said they have neither fined nor did they jumped a red light in 2016 but risky riding still continues as 30% riders admitted to red light jumping 1-2 times a week.
    Mr. Yadvinder Singh Guleria, Senior Vice President - Sales and Marketing, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd. said Reinforcing its commitment to the promotion of road-safety, Honda engaged over 24,000 people children and females in 250 cities across India. Supporting Honda in this celebration were various stakeholders of the society including Defense personnel, Corporates, schools, several State police departments and NGOs etc.

    Multiple engagements for all age groupsHonda spreads its Wings beyond the obvious metros to include 250+ cities across India from Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu), Bhuj (Gujarat) and Barwani (Madhya Pradesh) to Dhamtari (Chhattisgarh), Dhule (Maharashtra) to Guwahati (Assam), Sringar (Jammu & Kashmir) to Nagarcoil (Tamil Nadu).

    Leading the road safety cause from the front, Honda 2Wheelers is the first two-wheeler brand in India to adopt 11 traffic training parks across India (Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Jaipur, Delhi * 2, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Yeola (Nashik), Hyderabad, Indore and Coimbatore. During the week, Honda educated close to 6500 individuals at its traffic parks.

    Many unique engagements Note:rd May, 2016

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    Source: HMSI
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    Re: Road sign literacy still low in Indian 2Wheeler riders

    Whats concerning is not the fact that people don't know signs. But rather that they don't care for riding/traffic etiquette. Those who notice and understand signs too are not exactly inclined to adhere to them.

    Basic things like, Not to honk at Red Light, Switching lanes long before you make a turn, Using Blinkers! and Retaining RVMs (or as i see in Hyderbad, Retaining RVMs in correct direction). Not adhering to these things is an indicator of the,"I care a d@*^" attitude amongst the riders as well as the drivers on the road.

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      Re: Road sign literacy still low in Indian 2Wheeler riders

      It is good that HMSI is taking few steps in educating the younger generations about the traffic signs. But as [MENTION=36417]rugved[/MENTION] mentioned its the attitude towards this rules creates problems.

      And people will speak about rules/signs only when they want to blame others. Unless majority percentage of people starts to follows signs no one is going to bother about it.

      And I would also like to appreciate the government(for most of the times) in placing these signs, replacing some damaged or faded signs, relaying the zebra crossings and stop lines, lane markings etc etc in hope that people starting seeing the signs and act accordingly.

      Ram

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        Re: Road sign literacy still low in Indian 2Wheeler riders

        Nothing will change until people demand it of the government, and in turn the government puts in place a proper framework of testing, training and enforcement of traffic rules (surprisingly, cops lazily setting traps and extorting bribes do not count). Doing all this is expensive and takes a lot of work, which means nobody will want to do it. To add to this, let's face it, the only time we Indians complain about traffic rule violations or bad driving is when someone else is doing it, but we see it perfectly acceptable when we ourselves do it


        tl;dr nothing will change anytime soon.


        Perhaps natural selection will keep weeding out bad riding habits until the only riders that stay alive and intact are the ones that actually care about safety
        Urban Gypsies MC

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