The proposal for an automated improve of the B2 motorbike license to a full B motorbike license have to be additional scrutinised because it may have implications for the nation’s highway security system, and lots of issues have to be considered earlier than permitting the automated improve of licenses for motorcyclists, Malaysian Driving Institute Affiliation (PIMA) president Mat Aris Bakar stated, in keeping with the New Straits Occasions.

This contains the statistics of accidents involving motorcyclists and their self-discipline on the highway, as based mostly on statistics, two-wheeler occupants, each riders and pillion riders, make up the very best highway fatalities, the PIMA president stated.

“Moreover, kapchai [underbone motorcycles] and superbikes [large engine capacity bikes] are two various things. To trip a superbike, it not solely requires a [full] B license, but in addition further abilities and competency that one doesn’t get when getting their B2 license. Security must be entrance and centre of the consideration because the transfer can endanger the lives of these unfamiliar with the distinction in [license] lessons,” he stated.

The transfer to mechanically improve a motorcyclist’s B2-class license to a full B license may regress the nation’s car licensing system because it includes the competency of the rider, he stated, including that those that acquired their full B license via the automated improve could not have their licenses recognised by international nations.

For the classification of bike licenses in Malaysia, the B2 license is for license holders to function bikes of as much as 250 cc capability, whereas the total B license permits the license holder to function bikes with no higher restrict restriction on engine capability.

Yesterday, deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi stated {that a} rider’s age and the length of being B2-licensed are among the many components which have to be thought of earlier than the proposal for the automated improve to a full B license for bikes will be finalised.

Earlier this month, transport minister Anthony Loke stated that the matter of mechanically upgrading B2 licenses to full B licenses is nonetheless beneath evaluate by the transport ministry, and later famous that the choice to mechanically improve B2 license holders to a full B license shouldn’t be simple as a result of JSPT statistics present that almost all of highway accidents contain people aged between 16 and 35.

The automated upgrading of bike licenses was first proposed in August final yr, submitted by Superbikers Affiliation Malaysia (SAM) president Datuk Abdul Halim Sulaiman. This submission proposed that holders of the B2 motorbike licence with its 250 cc restrict, be upgraded to the total class B license after three years, on the situation the B2 licence holder doesn’t commit any severe site visitors offences.

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