Navigating Hong Kong's roads can be fraught at the best of times. There are the drivers who consider indicators an unnecessary extravagance and the unusual roundabout etiquette, which requires drivers to pull up, wait patiently for another car to appear and then zip out in front of it.
Fortunately, the government has taken decisive steps to minimise risks on our highways and byways. The civil-service boffins tasked with furnishing our roads with appropriate warnings have seen fit to add, in large orange lights, 'DRIVE CAREFULLY, ARRIVE SAFELY'.
We have enough advertising billboards to distract, educate and entertain passengers, but is it wise to make a bid for the driver's undivided attention, with such absurdly pointless advice?
In the scheme of things, driving is one of the jobs most people approach 'carefully'. It's perhaps understandable that a driver's mind might become distracted by the odd Schnauzer, Pekingese or stray toddler scrambling over the dashboard, but do we need to be reminded that driving without due care pushes a trip to hospital higher up fate's agenda?
Hong Kong is home to many brilliantly intelligent people. It's a shame so few of them considered a career in the transport authority.