Ride-Hailing Driver Uses Five Screens While Driving

Story ByAlex CopeSub EditorJoseph GolderAgencyAsia Wire Report 

Video Credit: AsiaWire/@harvinthskin

This ride-hailing driver has set tongues wagging after a video of him using this array of five digital screens on his dashboard while driving with a passenger on board was posted online.

The driver for ride-hailing application Grab reportedly works in the city of Singapore and Malaysian comedian Harvinth Skin posted a clip of the screens onto social media after landing in the city-state.

In the video, the driver can be seen with five screens across his dashboard, three of which are mobile phones.

Picture Credit: AsiaWire/@harvinthskin

One of the screens show the car’s parking cameras, another appears to be showing a video of an orchestra playing while another has a map. Another screen appears to footage from a surveillance camera while another is seemingly a list of contacts.

Skin wrote in the video’s caption: “Yo Singapore! Your grab drivers are f*cking crack, got 5 different screens, got time to look at the road ah?”

The comedian and YouTuber added that the driver even had a food menu in the back o his car which passengers can order and have delivered.

Netizen ‘Johnny Toh’ commented: “I always thought Singapore is very strict on their laws, apparently not.”

And ‘Leluhur Tengku Manjalara‏’ wrote: “Is he listening to Beethoven Symphonies?”

Grab is a Singapore-based transport company which operates in the Southeast Asian countries of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia.

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