In recent news (see here), there’s a 20-year-old PMD rider who collided
with an elderly woman, who was riding on a bicycle, at Bedok area. The rider
was arrested for the act while the victim got admitted to an Intensive Care
Unit with aggravated injuries. Unfortunately, did not make it through.
In another news (see here), various in-home fires broke out and much
more related to PMDs as its battery left overcharged and exploded, causing a fire
to spread in home.
Now, a surge of petitions to ban PMDs is surfacing. Due to negligence
and irresponsible owners. But does banning PMDs solve the recent negative
happenings or does it take away jobs to those people who use PMDs to do odd
jobs and deliveries?
Instead of banning PMDs in helping to reduce dangers in pavements,
we can also see that it will not be helpful to jobs at all. I mean might as
well ban cars since there are almost a lot more incidents every week due to
careless drivers.
Some may argue, “but if no PMDs, then use a bicycle or motorcycle
to do the deliveries then!”
Sure, but how many people can own a motorcycle? How many
people have a decent bicycle or are they using PMDs because they have leg mobility
issues that are why they chose to do this? PMD is such a big word as it also
includes E-scooters, seated PMDs for elderly, and motorised wheelchairs etc.
With PMDs, may be beneficial to odd job workers. I know some
poor folks got themselves a PMD, more specifically an E-scooter, to work for grab food as it’s an easy job to have a good salary. Others benefit by having a
good side income as a food delivery personnel.
Not just food delivery, we can look into the neighbourhood
postal services which packages are delivered by odd job workers can benefit
from PMDs.
Elderly people or those who have motor issues with their
legs can benefit from PMDs to travel short distances with ease.
Not just those who use PMDs, starting companies who sell
PMDs brings out more job options to retailers to sell the product and
technicians to fix the devices. As Singapore would be moving to a smarter
nation, we can see PMDs as a new way of life of fast-paced and in-demand
services towards logistics, deliveries and engineering.
Who else can benefit from using PMDs? As for now, options
are yet to be explored.
Visit www.findsgjobs.com for more job opportunities!
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