"Illegal Street Racing" A Quarter Mile of Problems...

Wan Fadli Hazilan Wan Rosmidi (A122863)

Hello Guys... Guess who???

It's me again, One-Fudley...

In the previous session we've discussed about the definition and also the causes of the "Illegal Street Racing" Hmm... Seems like this topic has become a very hot topic recently...

Every action that we take in our daily routine must have it's own effects towards we our own self and also people around us (public). It's goes the same with our hot discussion topic in this site, which is "Illegal Street Racing".

Could you guys guess, what are we going to discuss next about this topic??? Yeah! Bravo! That's right! Come on, let's get into the serious mood to discuss about it further...

More than 50 times each year, a participant or spectator dies as the result of an accident that occurs during an informally organized street race. Malaysia has had a long love affair with street racing. That love has been reflected in and magnified by popular culture. In the ’50s and ’70s, Hollywood romanticized the activity in movies like “Rebel Without a Cause” and “American Graffiti.” The current surge in street racing can be traced to few years ago when “The Fast and the Furious” hit the screens with its spectacular race scenes.

Today, street racing is a problem in almost every Malaysian community, as technology such as the Internet and text messaging have made it easy to stage underground races for substantial audiences.

Every weekend, in thousands of communities across Malaysian, street races are organized with different levels of sophistication. Some illegal races involve a loosely affiliated group of youths hanging around an abandoned area of town. Other street races are elaborate events complete with flaggers, timekeepers, lookouts, and scores of spectators. In fact, the level of sophistication can often be judged by how well equipped the lookouts are, some of the more complex events will arm the lookouts with police scanners and two-way radios.

These races usually take place in a remote area, primarily in industrial areas. A course is marked out to a distance of between one-eighth and one-quarter of a mile. The racers take their mark, a starter drops his arms, and the race is on.

Street races are exciting for all involved. Even the spectators get a thrill because they are witnessing something illegal, informal, and dangerous. This builds a sense of community among street racers and spectators. Unfortunately, it is a community in which even the spectators are at risk.

Street racers are not professional drivers and have never been formally trained. There is no chance for them to practice. They rely on their limited experience at high speeds and their adrenaline to get them through the race. Also, their vehicles have been modified beyond the manufacturers’ standards and engineering specs. The result of a racer pushing the capabilities of his or her vehicle can be a blown engine or a ton of sheet metal hurtling out of control into a crowd.

And the crowd is often way too close to the marked course of the race and not behind any protective barriers. Consequently, vehicle crashes at street races cause injuries to drivers, passengers, spectators, and even innocent bystanders. This criminal activity also has other effects that are less publicized. Public streets are marred by burning rubber of the vehicles’ tires and excessive wear and tear. The crowd that congregates creates noise issues and leaves behind a trail of vandalism and litter.

Fuhh... Now we know that we are in danger because of those illegal racers... So, whwt are waiting for??? Let's go to the nearest police station to report about this activity which happened around your screened-off area...

That's all for now, feel free to comment on this topic n see you again in the next session...

Adios! Astalavista!

Why and why it happens?

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Hello and hey everyone... With me again, Mohd Shaffi Bin Mahadi (A124280).. Continuing talking about illegal street racing..In my last post, I did mentioned about the definition of illegal street racing..Now, I want to move on to the second question which is why illegal street racing occurred in Malaysia. Everything happens for a reason and in this case it is the same..In my opinion, I think there is one major factor contributing to the occurrence of Illegal Street racing in Malaysia.

First and foremost, we have to find out the core or the root of the problem and in this crisis it leads to the mind set of the society. What do it means actually? It means that how the society address this particular problem. The range is whether they hate it very much or they just assume it as a petty issue that is not worth enough to be bothered off. I want to quote a sentence from http://www.evostreetracers.com/about_faq.html that stated that "...strategic law enforcement is dependent on the current social values of society. Frequently it takes numerous deaths for a society to react to a problem, demand change from politicians, and for law enforcement to react..".So from that statement it shows that how the society thinks or addresses any particular problem including this problem are very essential.The people in large hold the power. They can form a government with it and if the society wants illegal street racing to be wiped out entirely from our society, it can be done. Pressure from the society will force our leader to put extra effort in countering this problem.

But as usual, every problem has its own barriers. In this context, the barrier is mass media.The government is trying to solve the problem but the mass media portraying it oppositely.Movies like "Evolusi KL Drift", "Impak Maksima" and "Fast and Furious" are making the task tougher than it has been. Now, the society eyes are derived but time will reveal the truth about how nasty this problem is. News from http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/arkib.asp?y=2008&dt=0628&pub=utusan_malaysia&sec=mahkamah&pg=ma_04.htm&arc=hive can speak for itself when it stated that there is a "mat rempit" that brave enough to knock down a police officer.

As a responsible society, everybody should join their hand and fight this problem with all manners. Surely, we don`t want to wait till the boiling point where it will explode. The time where all the perpetrators that committed illegal street racing are the king of the street. Till that happens, it means that we still have the time. The law enforcer should not be left alone to fight this problem and the society should join in with the force even tough it is not directly but indirect actions such as reporting the event of illegal street racing could be more than enough.

The problem derives from the society and from the society the cure will be found.
So, till then..See you when I see you.
Adios (“P)

illegal street racing? in Malaysia? why?!

Hello!!! I'm here,again...

Why illegal street racing occured in Malaysia? there is many reasons listed in my brain right now. there is two types of illegal street racing, that is involved motorcycles and cars. both vehicles being modified to make it faster, lighter and looks "cool" and trendy.
things that make people interested in involving themselves in illegal street racing could be many...but for me there is 3 types of 'rules' or reasons that makes people especially teenagers got involved in this unhealthy 'sports'.

The 3 'rules' are : mass media, enviroment, personal problems. people might use mass media to learn more about street racing. mass media have many category of intertaiment that will make people attach to it such as drama, televisyen series, movies, newspaper, radio, advertisment and animations. the most attracted ones are movies and animations such as 'KL Drift', 'KL Menjerit' and 'Initial D'.

As for enviroment, Malaysia have many highways and roads with effective funtions and smooth tar. Many Malaysian citizens could care less about this unhealthy sports that happen around them. there just let it be and left the problem to the authority. even if there is some 'illegal street racing' happening just in front of their eyes, they look at it as if it's normal. but if something bad happen, they put the blaim to the authority or the goverment. things like this would make the people who involved in illegal street racing thinks that whatever they do is right in the eyes of the society.

The third reason is personal problems. people especially teenagers got involved in illegal street racing is because they want to 'left the reality worls thats suck' and enjoy their own created reality that is full of fantasy. things like family problems ang got involved in bad friends fit into personal category of reasons why illegal street racing occured in Malaysia. things like family split up or school problems might make teenagers fell depress with their life and started involed in illegal street racing. other reason is; family to busy with works and could care less about their children welfare and this would make them feel lonely started to think that their parents did not love them anymore and make friend with someone that they think might understand their problems...and suddenly got involve in illegal street racing.

So, people must think about positive things and do not make themselves involved in illegal street racing eventhough it's looks 'cool'...bye...

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Why??? Why??? Why??? Illegal Street Racing occur in Malaysia?

Wan Fadli Hazilan Wan Rosmidi (A122863)

Hello there… What’s up guys???

Meeting me again One-Fudley in this blog to discuss further about our interesting topic “Illegal Street Racing”. Almost every night, young drivers around the country enter into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with local law enforcement officials as they try to seek out locations to engage in “Illegal Street Racing” events. It happens in virtually every major city around the world. While their parents sleep, young men and women sometimes in their own cars, sometimes in the family car, sometimes by merely spectating, are prepared to risk life and limb in the pursuit of 'fun',. Yet despite the accidents, arrests, fines and the danger and risks associated with Illegal Street racing, this activity has been going on for over 50 years.

Previously we have gone into detail to define what is mean by “Illegal Street Racing”. For this session, let’s get into the cause of this activity. There are many causes which can be linked into this problem. As for now why don’t we just focus on one cause first which is “Racing Video Games”. Gamers who play racing video games usually tend to drive faster and drawn in “Illegal Street Racing” in real life.

From my opinion racing video games could be a contributing factor to people's bad driving habits such as competitive behaviour, recklessness and performing risky manoeuvres. According to the report of the research that have been made by Daily Tech, people who play these games and drive cars are more likely to drive recklessly and get into accidents than people who don't play racing games.

The abstract from the report states "[The authors] found that the frequency of playing racing games was positively associated with competitive driving, obtrusive driving, and car accidents; a negative association with cautious driving was observed."

By looking into this factor it can be says that since the racing video games are becoming more and more realistic, the games feel real and directly affect how gamers drive. Driving actions in these games often include competitive and reckless driving, speeding and crashing into other cars or pedestrians, or performing risky stunts with the vehicle. In short, most actions in racing games imply a very high risk of having an accident or severe crash in a highly realistic virtual road traffic environment.

There are research have been conducted by researchers at the Allianz Centre for Technology in Germany, this research included 198 men and women, from those who played racing games often to those who did not. People who did play racing games often reported to have engaged in more aggressive driving more frequently than those who did not. Interestingly, the researchers indicated that racing games had a direct effect on risk taking behaviour. The study showed that 68 men who played even one racing game took more risks in a driving simulator than those who played other types of games.

So, watch out for those who are the fans of racing video games, you might be involved in the “Illegal Street Racing” if you don’t know how to differentiate between the cyber realm and real life.

Whoa! It’s getting hot in here… I think that’s all for now… We meet again in the next discussion with new question about this topic… Bye…Bye…

hello guys..its me again
mohamad khairy izwan bin mohamad zamani (A123138)

fuhh..its been a long time since i posted my last post. well it can't be helped due to lot of other commitment. hm..before this i've talked about the definition of illegal street racing where i talked about what does it mean by illegal street racing. okay then, now i'm going to talk about why ilegal street racing occured in Malaysia. as we all already know illegal street racing is an act that is prohibited by the law, but why it is still occurred?well then, in my opinion there are two main factor that contribute to this problem and they are domestic and foreign factor where the latter can be classified as the main contributor. why did i say that?the main factor is because of the era of globalization or also known as world without border. negative influences from the foreign countries especially the west that was brought here through mass media could not be entirely blocked. one of the example that i can give regarding western influence through mass media is a wide promotion made by the media on several movies concerning illegal street racing such as 'fast and furious', 'Tokyo drift' and so on. these movies give some sort of motivation to our people nowadays where some of our people will began to think that if they can do it i also can do it. these movies also inspires our own movie producer to produce this type of movie to gain a profit, and as a result several local movies regarding illegal street racing had been produced such as 'impak maksima' and 'evolusi Kl dift' and not to miss 'remp-it'. well then, i think it is not a complete and fair judgment if i only talk and put the blame on mass media and western influence. this is because domestic factors also have their own contribution on this matter. one of the factor is a lack of awareness among family members that one of them is involve in the illegal racing due to lack of time spend among the. as for example the parents that always busy with their work and spend only a limited amount of time with their children did not even realize that their children involve in the illegal act. other than that peer pressure also play a major role in this matter. this is because other than own family, peer is a closest companion and if they involve in this illegal act, there's a big chance that those whom at first did not involved with this illegal racing will be dragged into it. well then i think that's all that i can write right now...till we meet again..adios

OBJECTIVES:

• To define what illegal street racing is.
• To discover the cause of the occurrence of illegal street racing in Malaysia
• To determine the effects of the illegal street racing in malaysia
• To find out the measurements taken by the authority to counter the problem

QUESTIONS:

1. What is illegal street racing?
2. Why illegal street racing occurred in Malaysia.
3. What are the effects of illegal Street racing towards the public?
4. What are the measures that had been taken by the authority to counter the problem?
5. Which group of people involved with the street racing and why?
6. What will ensue if there is no action taken by the authorities to oppose the problem?

What is actually means by Illegal Street Racing???

Wan Fadli Hazilan Wan Rosmidi (A122863)

Hallo There...

Meeting me again One-Fudley...

Talking about racing, whoaa.... Such an interesting topic to be discuss in this blog...

There are many categories of racing that we know in this world nowadays, but for now, let focus on "The Illegal Street Racing". Yes, it is an eye catching topic for those who have experience in this kind of activity...

Watch out Bro!!! You must beware of the cops... Let's get in to serious discussion about this topic. How can we define Illegal Street Racing??? Don't strees your self to think about it... We go word by word...

What is Illegal??? According to the "Longman Dictionary 3rd edition published by Longman" illegal means 1. something which is forbidden by law or statute 2. contrary to or forbidden by official rules, regulations, etc.: Hmm.... looks like you have involved in unhealthy activity... (for those who is an illegal street racer)

It's just a begining of our discussion. Next, let's take a look into the definition of street racing...

According to www.geocities.com/apexi20/whatis.html Street Racing, by definition, is the illegal engagement of a speed contest on public roads. A street race does not necessarily only entail breaking of the speed limit, but may also entail other moving violations. Some street races might not even reach the speed limit, drivers may decided to shut down before the speed limit is reached if they have obviously proved their point. However, unsafe starts (which consist of massive amounts of acceleration), tire spinning, and unsafe lane changing may also be symptoms of a street race. While this doesn't always happen, and responsible street racers often choose to race only on unpopulated streets or highways, illegal and dangerous street races still occur in traffic and on populated public roads.

Oh my God...

This is a serious problem... For those who involved in this kind of activity, this is just a simple advice from me, let's stop this doings before you get caught by the authority... We will discuss about this in detail in the next session...

Bye bye for now....