r/Bolehland • u/kopikepam • 18h ago
Driving license for the rich
Out of curiosity, how does the rich people in malaysia take their driving license? Do they have their own like high end driving school or they took it just like we do? Or they just pay extra money for the license to be processed without taking the exam?
I hate going to the driving school and facing the jpj. For sure they hate it as well. There must be a better way for them since they have money.
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u/Just_Illustrator6906 lazy, 44-year-old bougie bitch 18h ago
Dude.. the really rich don’t bother. They have drivers. The ones who want to drive still go thru the same school like everyone else, maybe with some duit kopi here and there to smoothen things. End of the day, driving school is more about learning the traffic laws than actual driving skills, just that a lot of people don’t bother applying that knowledge once they’re on the road 😂
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u/princeofpirate 17h ago
Answer in a test - Keep distance 3 cars away.
Real life - Kiss the butt
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u/hydecruz 17h ago
Real life - driver around you may have longer driving experience but they may fu up.
Source: getting hit from the back while waiting for a chance to merge on busy road. First accident so I'm blur and stay inside the car while my father settled the problem...
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u/Brilliant_Tapir 12h ago
Yeah, shit happens. Thankfully there are dashcams now. Can avoid a lot of unnecessary disputes.
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u/Jaded-Philosophy3783 17h ago
what they cannot do
- skipping the whole thing entirely
what they may be able to do
- repeat the test multiple times until they pass
- attend the beginning of the lecture & go for long "toilet break" at nearby kopitiam
- pay extra to get a "nicer" jpj instructor
- pick more established & comfortable driving school with airconditioning and stuff
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u/Salt-Dot8164 18h ago
Many of them still go through the driving school but of course duit kopi to the jpj officer during testing.
Super rich may have jpj officer on the inside that can just produce the license for them. I wouldn’t be surprised knowing how corrupt jpj is.
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u/EmergencyAd3372 18h ago
I absolutely hated the whole process too, just a very hot place in general with flies everywhere
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u/rs_4 17h ago
I hope you understand that you're endangering other people's lives as well when you're driving on public road. So please make sure that you learn how to drive properly. I dare to say that all these undertable kopi money is partly why we have so many stupid and asshole drivers on the road these days.
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u/Proud_Action_5200 17h ago
Assholes drivers are all about individuals' attitude, nothing to do with not going through proper training (reference: Singapore drivers 🤣).
In the early 90s, the going rate is rm500 for a confirmed pass for practical riding + driving license.
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u/Han_Draco_Rokan Get me out of this shithole 17h ago
I have an instructor to myself, longer hours and that’s it.
I passed the manual transmission driving test without issue.
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u/DonLikeThisLa 17h ago
My sincerest apologies. ‘fraid to say that i am rather unfamiliar with that area of expertise. Perhaps my butler has one of those?
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u/Traditional_Bunch390 16h ago
They go through just like everyone else. Most of the time they got their license before they become recognised VVIP.
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u/StealthUrus 12h ago
They pay for guarantee pass and talk nice to their instructors to let them skip classes while their attendance are still taken.
Source: i know a rich guy who can drive well but didnt like the jpj at all.
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u/CN8YLW 17h ago
Rich people usually dont flaunt their wealth in front of govt servants, because that's typically how you end up getting forced to pay bribes. Even more so with JPJ driving exam staff, who are very famous for threatening people with failing the tests if you dont pay. Maybe this is just my personal experience, but my driving instructor told me that for all the Chinese driving exam takers he send for the exam, he advise to keep RM300 cash in their purse during the exam, and nothing else. And expect the examiner to ask you to stop during the exam and tell you that you're gonna fail unless you give him money to pass you, then you open the wallet and give the whole bundle to him.
If you flaunt that you're rich, then the expected RM300 bribe will just end up being RM3000.
Also, no special place for rich people to take exams and learn to drive.
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u/Sea-Contribution-929 15h ago
When did you do that? During my time like 11 yrs ago, the staff asked if I wanna bao, then pay her b4 jpj test. My mom told me to pay, coz her time mcm compulsory to avoid failing. My friend who didn't pay failed her road test, then she pay to avoid retaking again.
My bro had his jpj test in 2023, he did not pay anything and passed in first try
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u/CN8YLW 14h ago edited 14h ago
Hmmm... About 20 years ago give or take? So 2003-2005 ish. I remember my test was pretty flawless. The parking, the slope, the reverse all perfect. Because that center got one "cursed" car that everyone says must avoid, and I got it. Didint encounter a single mishap from the list that car was famous for. Driving also no problem, roads were empty, the tester just give directions and I drive like normal. The attitude of the tester also like, dont give a fuck boredom. But on the way back to the center he asked me to stop at the side of the road before he told me "alright, you're gonna fail. Got money for me so I pass you?". So I took my wallet, made a show of how I left only RM200 left in it, and took out the folded RM100 I hid in a side compartment for him.
RM300 is the exact figure the driving school instructor told me to pack for the staff btw.
Maybe more recent testing is less corrupted. Ever since MACC started getting serious cracking down on corruption I do notice that these instances are a lot less likely to happen, even with police roadblocks. Back in the day, they'd stop you just cos your car looks nice and they'll pull all the tricks in the book to make you give duit kopi without actually accusing you of anything. On average I get pulled over maybe once every 2-3 months, and that's easily RM100 gone just to convince them not to make me wait for 30 minutes at the roadblock. Mind you, no accusations or samans are being written here. They just tell me to wait. Its basically racketeering. They're forcing people to pay so they dont get subjected to red tape. Nowadays I think its been 10 years since I got stopped like that. Last stop was maybe 6 years ago for speeding. Basically going 85kmph on a 80kmph downhill road.
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u/Sea-Contribution-929 11h ago
Yea my payment was rm300 too. We pass it to driving school and they will settle for us.
I remember my dad's van always get stopped whenever there's a roadblock when i was a kid. If kena, he will swiftly take out his money to stuff under the carpet and tell Mr. P no money. Then get away with rm5 or 10 lol
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u/lzchyi Boleh Kah? 17h ago
Lol wtf, never heard this in my life. We know about pay extra to get higher success rate before the exam start, tbh we don’t even know it is the real case or the uncle just want to get more pocket money from student, since no one dare to ask the authorities directly about this. But 300 in pocket, stop aside during the exam and pay the officer? That’s new.
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u/TheLastTrueMalayan 17h ago
Back in high school, there was a junior from my school who got his driver's license at 16 years old thanks to his dad who paid in full for him.
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u/amely_5ai 16h ago
The Rich just pay the kawtim cost, & got the licence.. Plus extra payments for OKU cards.
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u/DishSwimming2397 18h ago
Bro everyone go thru this, whether u are rich or not
not even the VVIP dare to drive out without license one
Even VVIP also need take lesson / license for their super car one
Rich ppl vvip call their driver, no need take license for their whole life. This been a thing even before 1900. Is just not well known fact