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We have many European cyclists everywhere here in Hua HIn. I watch their riding habits, and you can see that they assume that drivers are aware of cyclists around them, as they do back in their home countries. This is so far from actual reality............ I had been cycling for some 50 years before moving here to Thailand. IMHO, anyone out there cycling on these roads in Thailand has a death wish. Cyclists and Thai roads and Thai drivers do not integrate well in Thailand.

Seems birds of a feather flock together..............

Re: In an interview, Dr. Santikarn noted that many drivers, particularly taxi drivers, reported that they were often unaware of pedestrian crossings until it was too late. Really, surely this cannot be true............ Taxi drivers can see a fare 100 yards ahead of them, flagging them down from the footpath Yet they cannot see a marked pedestrian crossing directly in front of them Give me a break, pull the other one, it squeaks.

No, surely that can not be happening, corruption in Thailand government. Bugger, "You could have knocked me over with a feather"

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Re: Many foreigners perceive Thai drivers as incompetent, but the real issue is inadequate enforcement of laws and poor road infrastructure. Thanks for providing all the statistics in regard to this issue. Unfortunately, from someone that have been working here since 1996 and now living here permanently for the last 10 years. It's in Thai's DNA that cause them to act in the selfish, erratic and disregard way they drive on the road systems here. They have no regard for anyone else on the roads, my driving is perfect, me first and the rest of you can go to hell at any or all costs. IMHO Improved policing, road systems, increase in fines and / or driver education and license testing will not solve this problem. My survival attitude is when ever I am out driving, I treat it as all drivers here are trying to kill me and I drive defensively accordingly.

That would be a waste of money, firstly the majority of Thai drivers have no damn clue of the traffic act regarding the use and rightward of roundabouts. Additionally, Thais obeying traffic lights is a 50:50 engagement at best.

More useless time and money wasted as Thailand refuses to acknowledge internation business is mostly done in English You think any international tax documents Thais retrieve are going to be in Thai, NO! Why Thailand will always be a Third World country until they embrace international business standards AI Quote " English is the most commonly used language for international business transactions. It is often considered the global business language due to its widespread use and acceptance in many countries around the world. This makes it the go-to choice for cross-border communication, contracts, and negotiations. "

Just normal occurrences on Thailand's highway to hell road networks. You can't put brains in statues.

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Not fixable, until you change the driving culture of those behind the wheel, Thai driving habits IMHO are the worst in the world. Which will never happen as it's at a point of no return

It's not just attractions or golf courses, it's systemic throughout the whole society of Thailand.

Sad, the loss of another life on the Thai roads But it reflects in the driving habits of how riders act on motorbikes here I think you all know that they lack any brain matter to truly understand the ramifications of their dangerous driving actions PS. Thailand reports the highest number of motorcycle-related deaths in the world, with 74.4% of motorcycle deaths. The country is also known as having one of the most dangerous road infrastructures within the entire region of Southeast Asia.

I often while waiting for the right turn green arrow on the major road in Hua Hin play this game with my wife. Guessing how many red light runners we will have this time while waiting to turn right. Always multiple red light runners, always flash my lights at the oncoming vehicles (that are required to stop at the red light) before I make my right-hand turn. Thais just love running red lights, absolute brain-dead morons.

Interesting comments both positive and negative re TM47 online 90 day reporting Well without being too forward, any comments that indicate the Online 90 days reporting system is great and works all the time for me, those individuals can consider themselves very lucky. I can speak with some authority as a long time user of all the Online 90-Day Reporting solutions and as an IT technology specialist of some 40 years in the business. We often say in the IT technology field "you get what you pay for" and even though the current Web based TM47 solution is far improved over the older versions, it is still wanting in basic design, integration and support, features and functions. If you follow closely the history of developments, more recent announcements were a revamp of the Online Web based solution which was down for many days due to the upgrade and the latest announcement about integration work currently being undertaking between systems. To date, none of these Immigration systems, to my knowledge, communicate real-time data with each other, not an easy task as some are legacy systems and others are current technology systems, all potentially in different software languages. I found the development company for this current Online solution digging through the backend of the code. As a person that develops these types of solutions over many years, I know all the pitfalls of what users encounter and how to build robust software around these issues to mitigate user mishaps and intelligent feedback real-time within the in-form notification and validation software. I emailed the development company on what I considered the key shortfalls were of their current solution. They were nice enough to say thank-you Excluding the basic form with autofill, there is no real-time integration between the various databases that hold all the foreigner details. So without rambling on further, the frustration users experience will never be solved whether self-induced or system induced, until the end users' have real input into the problems at hand, we call this design phase "user requirements definition or input" it is the first phase of the software development cycles. I am sure there are contributors on this forum much more skilled or knowledgeable than myself that understand the limitations on the current TM47 Online 90 days reporting solution. So while I completely understand individual's frustration, nothing significant will really every change until the strategy changes, this could be management, financial, technical, knowledge, experience, resources or derived outcome requirements limitations. So as we say "grin and bear it", and live in hope!

Interesting on how many pickups are involved with road accidents, injury and deaths Would like to see some stats on this. Most, and I do mean most pickups I see, are just maniac speedsters with crazy dangerous driving habits.

Here is a little hidden gem in the article. Re Meanwhile, the government is working to merge immigration databases, a process expected to take most of next year This is one on the major reasons your online 90-day reports get so many rejections. These disparate Immigration databases have never been interoperative with each other.

Re including making salaries competitive with the private sector, aligning compensation packages with those of private companies, or maintaining the current salary system. Really, if they go that route, they better all be performance based pay. Um, can't see the government workforce here being held to that standard of deliverables.

He was just Monk'ing around 555

Why waste his time debating 3 Dumbocrats at CNN, same as ABC where he debated 3 Dumbocrats Harris running scared she will not debate Trump on FOX, with no earpiece earnings allowed.

Nothing new to see here! Thailand has the ability to consistently screw up everything they try to implement. Unfortunately, it's in their DNA, they can't help themselves. Nothing will every change! It reflects on the lack of their inability to think through any proposed initiatives of; why?, strategy, decision-making, requirements, target audience, input, scope, user-impact, evaluation, implementation, financing, prerequisites, time-line, scope-creep, skill-sets, project funding, consistent messaging, alignment, transparency, structures, personal, regulations, respondents, delivery, end-users, investment, advertising, impact, roadblocks, benefits, upside, downside, Gazetting, Government or Private Industry, ROI, feedback, perception, governance, reevaluation, adjustments and desired outcomes