Driving round with non-compliant car number plates and tinted home windows above permissible ranges? Chances are, you’re likely from the T20 earnings group, says the Centre for Governance and Political Studies (Cent-GPS).
The Kuala Lumpur-based behavioral and social science analysis agency stated this was what it noticed following a study it carried out to decide which sort of cars have been most likely to violate guidelines set by the highway transport division (JPJ).
Posting its findings on a series of tweets on Twitter, the agency stated the study was carried out in May, when it deployed commentary groups throughout a number of KL entry places throughout the rush-hour interval on work days. Monitoring autos transferring into KL throughout congestion, the stationary groups noticed a complete of 1,256 illegal autos.
It estimated that 58.8% of cars with illegal number plates belonged to the T20 group, whereas 25.6% belonged to the M40 group and 15.9% got here from the B40 group, figuring out the homeowners’ earnings group primarily based on new car costs. The firm added it assumed that each automotive it noticed was bought by means of a financial institution mortgage, with a five-year compensation plan and no down fee.
It stated that 56% of cars that had illegal plate numbers have been priced over RM160,000 (model new) in the present market, whereas 13% have been priced from RM120,001 to RM160,000 and 12% have been in the RM80,000 to RM120,000 worth zone. Cars priced RM50,000 or much less solely made up 8% of the cars noticed with illegal plate numbers.
The agency additionally acknowledged that the experiment didn’t observe bikes, which meant it couldn’t conclusively decide if the T20 group was more likely to break JPJ guidelines for number plates.
The Cent-GPS workforce additionally broke down the info in phrases of auto origins. Asian makes (Toyota, Honda, Lexus, and many others) made up 51% of the whole, whereas Continental manufacturers (Mercedes, Audi, BMW, and many others) made up 33.4% of the miscreants. Malaysian makes solely made up 15.6% of the illegal lot, although the agency acknowledged that many of those have been Proton X70s.
As for car home windows tinted properly above permissible ranges (for the entrance facet home windows, for which a 50% visible light transmission (VLT) rate is the authorized restrict), the study discovered that the T20 brigade led issues as soon as once more, estimating that 52.8% of cars with illegally tinted home windows it noticed have been value more than RM160,000.
Cent-GPS did acknowledge that it didn’t have the right tools to measure tint ranges and solely recorded cars with totally black tinted home windows on the motive force’s facet, and stated this limitation could possibly be improved on in future research.
However, primarily based on common findings, it acknowledged that cars over RM160,000 clearly dominated each classes, and requested why “society treats the ‘seemingly rich’ with more privileges, allowing them to think they can get away with violations of the law.”
It added that the findings additionally begs the query on the nation’s policy-making and rule of regulation. “If something as simple as car plate number laws are not being obeyed by certain segments of our country, how are we going to enforce more complex laws in the future?” the agency requested.
