The national Road safety Ambassador, Gabby Adu-Gyamfi has called on the government to ban the use of vehicles with automatic transmission in the country.
According to him, the increasing use of such vehicles in the country is not compelling many people to go through proper driving training to acquire license before taking to the road.
“Enact a law preventing automobile manufacturers from selling cars in Ghana with automatic steering wheel,” he urged.
Mr Adu-Gyamfi said the use of the automatic transmission has made most drivers ‘lazy’.
“The driver of a manual constantly fidgets with the gear shift. An upshift here, a downshift there, everywhere a shift.
“Often this driver has the left hand on the steering wheel, the right on the gear knob. Such drivers I believe are more attune with the operation of their vehicle.
They even look at the each other once in a while and that does not help,” he said.
He thus called on Parliament to enact a law against the use of the automatic steering wheel vehicles in the country.
 
 




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  2. This is backward thinking,whereas people are inventing driverless vehicles,a whole ambassador for road safety this comes from your mouth. What’s your duty as an ambassador?Please if you think you can’t do this job,kindly resign .You have goofed big time paaaa

  4. Him! Is he serious? Narrow minded person. No wonder the DCE was preventing you from his people. You don’t have anything good to offer the good people Ghana

  5. If this toll levy is going to work in Ghana and surrounding countries car get fault on the road side what will happen to them and have they paid the levy?

  6. Stark illiterate and pure stupidity on his part as road safety ambassador. who appointed this foot soldier to this role, a total shame and gross incompetent

  10. Which one too is “automatic steering wheel”.
    “According to him, the increasing use of such vehicles in the country is not COMPARING many people to go through proper driving training to acquire license before taking to the road.”
    Comparing paa. I don’t know if it’s the reporter or the reported. News editor you for look sharp

  12. So is this the competent people NPP promised us? OMG. This guy is seriously not serious. How on earth should one think like this? We better change this substandard government before it gets out of hand.

  14. l think this guy need to go back to school. He is still 8n the village. Wow! can u imagine sich a leader? We have a long way to go. This guy should shut up and go see a doctor.

  19. we are thin
    king of cars without engines ,cares without fuel,cars without strearing,even there are trains without drivers but all these are working perfectly,you are a minister or what ever talking about authomatic vehicles,
    shine your eye wai

  20. Please ignore him, his is just an ignorant who has opened his mouth too wide on an issue.
    Don’t blame him but Adom TV who are promoting this self acclaimed road safety ambassador.

  21. Saaaaa, Mr Ambassador, get educated on road safety issues before making comments, check the number of accident cars how many are as automatic. Please use the privilege well.

  25. Comment:Primitive mind .
    wow. am really shocked anyone will ever say things like this. how does automatic vehicle makes a driver lazy and a manual driver be attune with what is going on?

  26. in the civilized world( USA), emergency toll free numbers are called for breakdown and accident vehicles.The area is secured with devices such as neon lights, etc with the police cars/vans standing there till a tow truck arrives to clear the road. On the towing issue in Ghana follow this simple practice and leave the people alone. In this 21st century with IT abound why shouldnt you think out of the box where you can put people to work and also make money for the institutions. The insurance companies in Ghana are a fraud so in finding a way to curb road safetyness everybody must be patriotic and competent to make the country better. Stay away from corruption and propaganda. This guy ambassador doesnt know what the hell he is talkng about. Pray for him.

  27. Look the guy e-face, ibi like i-twaa o e tot before the interview. Appointing imbeciles with total disregard as to their ability to inform, perform and innovate in their respective roles is not responsible governance. Chaley Nana Ado, adey believe you, but this guy di3 please “come back again”.

  28. Oh poor country with poor minds. So don’t u feel ashamed for this shit?. Anyway, if it must start, it must start from the president, ministers, mp and co because they are all using automatic cars. Such a common sense bankrupt

  29. And I quote, “They even look at the each other once in a while and that does not help”.
    What does this mean? Who n who look at each other? Eeeii Ambassador paaa nie?

  33. Fix the loopholes in licensing unqualified people as drivers and lets have our peace of mind.
    Whiles others are thinking of building automobiles that are not even operated by humans, here we are thinking of going backwards to the manual transmission .
    What’s the point anyway?

  35. You see the Nonsense of I have money and I want a position. Uneducated, primitively minded baboons are given such important positions as road safety ambassadors. No wonder articulated trucks are left in the middle of hi ways killing innocent citizens.

  37. What a shame, my father pls think before you come out of any statement because you are a public figure everybody is listening to you.excuse me to ask you some questions; 1. Are you really a driver? 2. Can you differentiate between cars, trucks and vehicles? 3. How many companies manufacture vehicles in your country? 4. What is automatic transmission?5. Explain how automatic transmission works 6.what are the roles of road safety ambassador? 7. What is incompetency? I need the answers by tomorrow morning 8:00 am

  39. only an uneducated human will make this statement. You should be thinking of how to create jobs for Ghanaians or how an Ambassador as you will advice gov’t. to stop buying cars abroad and invest in our local car manufacturer like Kantaka but they prefer to go to India to buy TATA and Korea for KIA. You must be ashamed of yourself as an ambassador making such unnecessary statement.
    Take a very good nap and think of the needful before talking. He he able or disable? will be very pleased if you could pass this on.

  40. I hope can read all these comments. Pointless if these comments are not made available to him. ‘They may even look at each other’ paaaa. Still working that one out. What school did he go to?? Twee smh

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