It’s good news for us Malaysians, as Waze has listed Malaysia to be the best place to drive in the ASEAN region, according to a report by The Star. On a global level however, the country ranked 23 out of 38 countries in Waze’s second annual Driver Satisfaction Index, which measures overall drivers’ experiences.
The index focuses on more than 20,000 monthly active users among 235 cities and towns. It measures six factors – density of traffic, quality of roads and infrastructure, road safety, availability of driver services, socio economics and “Wazeyness” (happiness and thankfulness of Waze users).
Malaysia is one of four ASEAN countries featured in the index, with the others being Singapore (32), Indonesia (34) and the Philippines (37). From a local perspective, Central Malacca was the highest ranked Malaysian city at 94 (out of 235) for driver satisfaction, followed by Kuala Terengganu (97), Kuala Muda (105), Kota Baru (124) and Kuching (131).
Proceeding further, we find Kuantan (134), Kuala Lumpur (137), Kinta (138), Batu Pahat (139), Johor Baru (140), Kota Kinabalu (164) and Larut and Matang (166). Coming in at last place as the worst place to drive in the world is the city of Cebu in the Philippines.
“Generally we (Malaysians) are not really satisfied. Overall the results show that Malaysians are right in the middle of the ranking,” said Waze Malaysia’s sales manager Edward Ling Sieak Meeng, who added that drivers here were “neither too happy nor too dissatisfied” with driving conditions.
The index revealed that Malaysians are most satisfied about road quality, but are mostly unhappy with the availability of driver services such as access to petrol stations and parking facilities. There you have it folks, Malaysia is the best place to drive in the ASEAN region. Do you agree? Sound off in the comments section down below.
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Public transportation is so dire in Malaysia.
Almost every1 needs to drive / cycle / walk.
Read the article. Its nothing to do with public transport. When its nice to drive, mean it nice. All want to bash.
Its a nice road to drive but will be better if no idiot driving slow on the right lane.
It would be even better if everyone don’t think that they are shumacher and drive like maniac on the right lane
you are right! i just squeeze and aunty off the road just now for hogging the fast lane on LDP.
Waze does not know that traffic moves smoothly because our PDRM makan suap big time. They don’t stop people using emergency lanes. Even they stop, they makan duit big time. Within 1 minute, the car is let off the hook after RM100 settles everything. This is the attitude of the lazy people in Malaysia
So true. Annoying to see people do lane hogging. They never understand.
No one uses waze.
Really? Looks like you are the “no one”. Nobody.
Today Waze brought me via some unfamiliar ways to my office and back, due to accidents and massive jams on my regular route. Slightly longer than usual, but much better than getting stuck in the jam on the ELITE highway.
Everybody who is smartphone user use waze.. Only nokia 3310 user don’t use waze..
“Duit kopi mari” “Okey settle” “200km/h lagi”
Where’s Matang?
Larut Matang is district of Perak. It placed in Northern Perak near Penang, just one district over. The district capital is Taiping, one of oldest city in Malaysia.
It’s not surprising, bar the east coast highway (which is flawed), we have some of the best-engineered road systems in the world. It’s just that their maintenance is often suspect that leads to the hate.
The roads in Indochina are nowhere near our levels of quality and Singapore does not have the size to compete.The rest are quite meh as well.
Yes our roads are good.
but lest you forget the public pays a lot for them.
and keeps on paying.
I spend more than 300/mth on toll charges.
Driver’s attitude and behaviour are the main factors to road accidents and fatalities. I don’t see how that reflects the score of being the best place to drive. People are selfish especially when driving on the roads. Never give way, dangerous maneuver, drivers on the phone, not paying attention, and the list goes on.
LOL…!!! You forgot to register the hapiness at waiting 2hors to get to toll gate.
Most of the time here we tend to see Myvi, Saga & Vios’s tailgating people on the highway.
Compared to thailand, philippines, jakarta, our roads and behavior is heaven. Really, we are so much better than them.
Singapore too small to be any meaning and gomen said we don’t want you to drive
No point to highlight this. Most MY pipu will always condemn even there are good in MY.
Waze has been nothing but a nuisance to me. Everytime suggesting longer routes to avoid little traffic. Eventually we’ll reach our destination in a longer time
Would bang gmaps anytime, perfect navigation app.
overall not happy
Agree with U Susu. I am not Happy driving bcos I have to jammed up B4 paying the toll & then jammed again after paying toll.
Is this a joke?
Yes it is, potholes can be spotted everywhere.
Laugh die me
with the 80Kmh speed limits?
some country even lower
The problem is not the speed limit. Its the driver.
Malaysia rocks…proud to be Malaysian…those who idolise singapore so much or who love to look down at your own country can get lost for good…we dont need you traitors…
These pipu use apple maps go to holland when they use it to search for kajang
yes, keep earning and spending your bolehland ringgit. i can waste my few minutes to comment here because i got my strong currency SGD. haters gonna hate. so what?
Not sure how accurate is this survey. I was never invited to give a satisfaction index. Such a joke report.
If you read the content of the article and not just the titles, I believe this comment will cease to exist
Singaporean suck at driving. That’s all I want to say
Malaysia is oso one of the most dangerous places to drive..there are simply too many F1 wannabees, Ah Bengs, who perform extremely risky actions such as tailgating, cutting in without any warning despite little gap in front without even bothering to signal and sadly most of these drivers inc the young and old, male and female and u meet these fools on the road almost everyday, and most of them are Vios, van, lorry, trucks eg Hilux, Myvis and all kinda of Protons old and new…inc those who tink they are the only car on the road who drves slowly in the middle and fastlane, forcing oter drivers to overtake them with risk
SAB, not only Ah Beng, but also Ah Mad(Ahmad) & Ah Sing(orang asing). Couldn’t find a name for Muthu/Raja though. Maybe Semi-Value. Can or Not !?
How about the autobahns in Germany? They’re EVEN better no speed limit and you’ll get fined for driving slow. Malaysia would have better roads if you took the B-roads which is longer and more driver anticipating. The highways are good for faster traveling but varies thanks to many factors including the attitude of the driver regardless of make, type of cars. IMO, I like USA’s Highway 1.
Asean la, you dont read meh?
Joke of the year
I really hate drivers who cut in front of you rudely and then brakes to make a turn in to a lane while there are plenty or no cars behind you. Why can’t they just leave us alone and switch lanes behind us? Bastards
And I thought it always happened to me only….
We gotta anticipate/mind-reading their next moves, these idiotic drivers…and they’re all age-groups + both genders..
I invested in a good car honk to blast them good + a good video camera, just in case they act innocence in their police reports, after an inevitable accident…
true, because malaysia no law one, no stress driving here
especially over speeding can be settled cost effectively.
whoever came up with this clearly hasnt DRIVEN in malaysia
In term of road length and enjoyable drive, i agreed with statement but in term of driver attitude not aggred bcoz a lot of malaysian drivers drive like retard.
satisfied with road quality? this makes me doubt the credibility of the report. you mean we are satisfied with potholes everywhere? and we are happy driving through manhole cover that is not leveled with the road surface? we are happy with sudden braking and evasive maneuver to avoid those stupid manhole covers?
Waze is from US, so ini mesti semua salah Oba… oh wai
only in west side of malaysia not the east side
they are in slow pace. no wonder la always happy.
If motorbikes weren’t so irritating it’ll be even more enjoyable
Pothole alert!
This is where and how when one driver try to avoid a pothole last minute and try to swerve away from it then there comes our clown motorcyclist who loves to ride at the driver’s blind spot end up getting hit by the driver who swerve away from the pothole.
Oasis on the road!
This is where some area of our roads are uneven causing a huge puddle of water, covering at least one lane on a highway. If it is a busy highway then it will cause massive traffic jam. If it is an empty highway, then good luck for drivers who are traveling at high speed. Worst if your vehicles are not equipped with ESC/VSC.
Yes… It is expected. But we should be benchmarking ourselves with Europe or Japan or Korea. It has been decades since the first tarmacs were laid on our roads and it’s amazing that we still have bad quality/ugly/outright hazardous road repairs still in existence here. The way we cover potholes is like cows dumping shit. Splat.. done, and sometimes it came out to be more dangerous than it was before. Surprisingly, no one takes action. Only Plus and highway contractors do half decent jobs when it comes to road repairs.
Waze receive donation?
Our land, our soil are great!
Malaysia, no natural disaster.
All human being matters!
UMW, nobody will buy your cars without 6bags & ESC.
Don’t fool people.
Malaysian got knowledge!
I think the writer(Star) was referring BEST to Better, Eat, Sleep & Talk.
Waze provided the report, Star only put it in media. Unless u meant Waze main tipoo, so ini semua salah US… oh wai
John, I did not say Waze Tipu. I’m talking about the reporter of Star.
This article is written/edited by Gerard Lye. It’s suppose to be a joke.
I’m amazed by the way U managed to get through with your writing.
Best place to drift.
Road hog on right lane is not fun and those large trucks or buses always drive on middle lane or even the right
Nonsense! How can this be true especially with all the psychopaths driving around?
You can see me everywhere.
Waze , you receive donation?
Best place to drive kononnya and you show a picture of selfish drivers using the emergency lane.
Why Central Malacca got the highest rating in M’sia ?? Perhaps because the participants absolutely loves plentiful traffic lights everywhere and the long wait each time it goes red.