Goals

• To understand the distribution of people who drive vehicles in India
• To suggest readers on best practices
• To bring to notice that what dangerous practices we have and to realize it
• Future: To use this statistics along with suggestions for corrective actions that can be taken

Specimen

• 63 persons who have a valid Indian Driving License
• Most of the specimen were from South India

Outputs

• 35% of people consider themselves as good drivers; Whereas 8% believe they are the best and 5% not good drivers.
  
• A very good practice- Using helmet/seat belt while driving is followed by 59%, always. 27% use it most of the times.
  
• 48% agree that they do rash driving, at least only in emergencies. And a funny finding- 29% of people do rash drive sometimes, without any specific reason.
  

  No, I don’t rash drive	17	27%
  I penetrate through narrow gaps between other vehicles	22	35%
  I neglect pedestrians	2	3%
  I jump signals	2	3%
  I go through “No Entry”s	2	3%
  Over speeding	28	44%
  Other	5	8%

• More than half of people do not use mobile phones while driving.
  
• More than 50% of people met with accidents, in which 30% of people claim that the mistake was on the other person. I believe there were people who hit on cattle and claim it was the cattle’s mistake. It is up to those who participated in the survey to make a discretion.
  
• There are two kind of people who can be considered as dangerous drivers- those who drive zig zag and squeezing between other vehicles. Here is the statistics
  

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• Out of 59% of people who were caught by cops 38% were never changed with any penalties. Others are charged on various reasons
  
• 38% percent of cases, cops accept bribes whereas rest were truthful!
  

Many of the participants believe that a centralized-integrated penal system should be in place.
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