A television set is an electrical equipment with a screen that allows one to watch programs with motion pictures and sound. This device is commonly associated with such places as homes, offices, but hardly with commercial cars. This, therefore, bears the question to know what motivate this new trend of installing television sets in commercial cars, especially those locally known as "trotro".
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| A picture of television sets that have been fixed in some of the associated places like the house and the office |
In such places as homes, offices, shops, television sets have been used for information, education, and entertainment as well. Which purpose are they meant to serve in these new settings?
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| Television set installed in a car |
In order to attempt answering that question, I visited the 37 bus station in Accra and interviewed some drivers of these "enhanced" trotro, and these are some of the things they said.
While such innovations are, no doubt, praiseworthy, one can wonder how effective they are. With this in view, I went on to interview a few passengers to get their opinions about this, and here are some of the things they started: “I prefer cars which has TV sets installed in them because it makes me happy anytime I am going to the house after a bad and stressful day”; “I like those commercial vehicles with TV sets because it releases tension and makes me happy even when I am in a traffic jam”.
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| Passengers watching Television in a commercial car |
Those are the views of some passengers which may, as, reflect the views of majority of them.
In a nutshell, such an innovative way of combining the pleasant to the useful is commendable, provided that it does turn in a cause of incidents or accidents.
An Article by: Banabas Kofi Essel
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