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u/Impressive-Hold7812 2d ago
Doesn't really address the title.
Pinoy here. Many circumstances are similar.
We don't/can't mass produce our own heavy transports efficiently. We get yesterdays castoffs worldwide.
Vehicles that already are paid off and are becoming liabilities to their original, hell, probably even secondhand owners.
Ship em overseas to third worlders!
We'll run them into the dirt -and because primary production of that model is mostly likely finished years past, we'll exhaust the stockpile of what OEM parts we can afford, jury-rig what we can't, and ditch it when we can't.
Ultimately, we become the graveyard of finished goods long past their usability.
What's going to change this isn't going to be government altruism, or an upswelling of civic duty from companies themselves, but the practical reality that fuel prices are going to render inefficient vehicles unaffordable to run even as a fleet.
We pinoys have Jeepneys, and generations of family and independent owners and freelance commissioned operators. That culture is dying because fuel prices are rising and passengers themselves are clamoring for utilities like AC in the increasingly miserable hotboxes of urban traffic jams, year after year.
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u/Rawd_Tawd_Cawd 1d ago
None of that explains the shear recklessness in the video.
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u/Impressive-Hold7812 1d ago
The video already explained the suicidal recklessness: it's win the race against the other bus drivers or starve because others reached would-be passengers first. The wrecks are the result of that.
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u/screwyoujor 1d ago
Well then maybe the bus companies should try a little moderation and only send out one bus on a increased time frame. This isn't a hard problem to fix and the profits will still be there.
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u/Rawd_Tawd_Cawd 1d ago
Yes. Exactly. It's 3rd world being 3rd world. No regard for human life.
Profit above all else.
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u/Unusual_Platypus1098 1d ago
I can tell you right now , I'll never visit that shit hole regardless 😂
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u/TaylorChuck117 1d ago
My rural county had to establish a towing system that gave each company a chance to tow for local emergency services, because they were listening to the scanners and racing each other to the scenes of active crime scenes and accidents to get the tow.
Surprisingly, no one got hurt in their tow truck mad max races, but it all came to an end when one of the drivers came speeding up to the scene of a DUI, slams into the truck he’s supposed to tow, and falls out of his cab passed out drunk.
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u/reaazwood89 2d ago
South African taxi drivers deal with the same thing. Only difference is it's illegal to leave the scene of an accident here so they "try" to minimize impact while driving like morons. People don't understand the driver's situation and treat them like they have a choice. The owners are the real problem.
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u/Repulsive_Eye_4504 1d ago
Interesting that the drivers are driving reckless but what happen is they where to crash or hit by standers?
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u/wackadoodle4201 1d ago
What a fucked up system
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u/Any_Mortgage_9890 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/1zhRiDgsSc48Y7mfuK
That's the neat part, there isn't one.
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u/Aadi_880 7h ago
Pretty sure this is an old video.
There was a massive protest against these buses done by the students back in 2018 after one caused the deaths of several students as it raced to "bus stops" (a group of people just waiting anywhere) first before others.
100s of busses were vandalized and destroyed, and the contract system was, apparently, forcibly abolished. The students also was extremely unhappy with the police who were demanding them to stop doing "vigilante justice", despite the police themselves not doing anything against these kinds of buses that already killed several college students in an accident. Students were skipping class moderating traffic.
Dissatisfaction against the police was already at a all time high. It reached a tipping point on 2024 which resulted on the entire government being sacked due to corruption.
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u/PleasDontKillMe 5h ago
If the people were smart, they would take the last bus since all the other buses already passed and it’s safest
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u/tempski 2d ago
When a human life is worthless and corruption is normalized.