Comments on: Zain’s Traffic Violation Notification Service (Mukhalfaty)

By: rehan

rehan — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:16:14 +0000

I am amazed to see the number of people overspeeding in kuwait. I don’t overspeed in normal circumstances unless if i am tired of driving. I drive at 60 mph when the speed limit is 70 mph. There is no speeding tickets in my driving history in the US. Perhaps, driving at the speed limit also keeps you safer, because there have been several occasions when a deer came in front of my car.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:25:42 +0000

I tried finding wasta to cancel my fines or get some kind of reduction but it was impossible to find. supposedly you can’t cancel fines anymore cuz its all monitored by computer or some shit.

By: Joud

Joud — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:00:26 +0000

u paid for your fines ? so,ehow i thought u’d try to get the easy way out…. ;)

By: Lord Raj

Lord Raj — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:46:47 +0000

Good point - Kuwait.

By: Rayboy

Rayboy — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:26:13 +0000

KUwait … you said it right!

By: Kuwait

Kuwait — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:24:38 +0000

Drive within the limits OR be smart to remember where the camera is =

Avoid 680kd in fines
Avoid 3kd in zain activations
Avoid 250fils per sms
… and avoid this needless discussion.

By: Lord Raj

Lord Raj — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:10:51 +0000

10 years.. 3 KD + 250 fils for every text message .. 120 hrs very cool.

checking the website every week for free .. hmm

tonns of ways of going about it mate. Depends on how one looks at it.

Again.. If it works for you.. GREAT :)

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:01:24 +0000

I actually used 5 years but in reality its a lifetime service so if you would like to see how much time it would cost you over 10 years you just double it and you get 120 hours. KD3 or 120 hours? ;)

By: Lord Raj

Lord Raj — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:49:07 +0000

Well that is nice…

I didn’t say it would work for everyone or won’t work for anyone.

I mentioned CLEARLY that it is MY VIEW.

Chill mate.

thanks for the airthemetic.

You take a consolidated view over 5 years.. I like to break it down and am cool with 2 minutes a day.

BTW.. one doesn’t have to check EVERY DAY.. it doesn’t even get updated that often. Once a week is usually more than enough.

To each his own. Works for you,… cool. doesn’t work for me, so I just shared my view.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:50:25 +0000

Lord Raj my speed used to hover around 120-130km every morning on the gulf road and now after getting my speeding tickets its gone down to 90-100km so it has worked for me. It didn’t work for you fine but that doesn’t mean it wont work for everyone.

How much time does it take to check your fines every day on the moi website? 2 minutes? 2 minutes over 5 years is how much?

365×5x2=3650 divide that by 60 and the answer is 60.8. Thats the amount of hours accumulated over 5 years of you just checking the website daily for fines. I don’t know about you but my 1 hour is worth more than KD3.

By: Rashisha

Rashisha — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:45:00 +0000

Mokhalafty!!! Im Kind of in a pickle about this one, on one hand yes i would like to know that i’m speeding, or i ran a red light but then why would i wanna get a reminder 50,60, 30, 10 KD!!!! PAY PAY PAY *lol*
the MOI site is not that bad i mean you can even pay it online…
now zain needs to think about this one….

Wastety!!!!

By: joezaif

joezaif — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:39:36 +0000

Who the hell wants to pay money to know that he has lost some money, i mean it ridiculous, especially when it’s free on the MOI website.

By: Lord Raj

Lord Raj — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:30:00 +0000

Mark -

Hey, If it works for you, then great :)

Who knows, perhaps it is helpful and may be it might be a good deterrent against over-speeding.

I just don’t see it that way.

I mean, after paying up the fines (no where around 680, but somewhere to the tune of 500), I haven’t stopped speeding.

I don’t see how KNOWING that I have a fine, is going to make me slow down.

Checking the website daily.. hmm well, isn’t too much of a hassle for me (firefox and even IE let you save form information so you don’t have to type it over and over again). but then, like I said, it is just my view.

Again - If it works for you, then great. :)

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:06:54 +0000

Lord Raj as someone who just paid KD680 for ticket fines, this service is extremely extremely extremely handy for me. It could have saved me KD650 if I had it activated before.

I am not going to check out the website daily and plugin my civil id card to see if I got a ticket or not. I would rather pay KD3 and have someone check my violations daily and this is what this service does. So I don’t understand how you think this service doesn’t make a difference when in reality it will be helping people stop speeding.

By: K.theKuwaiti

K.theKuwaiti — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:05:34 +0000

Lord Raj

I think the service itself is a great idea (although it should be free). Most of the people who will be using the service have a couple of cars with other people driving them (drivers/siblings) .. this informs them about the ticket as its processed.

Its true that the violations are available online, but I am sure most people have better things to do than check the website every day.