Can’t convert scooter license can they? Are there so many from Vietnam and Indonesia driving cars that this is a priority?
There are many of them dying on scooters.
First it was the ebikes so they implemented a registration system for them.
After that, people complained more about the discriminatory rules on migrant workers not being allowed to register scooters and ebikes… so they changed the rules.
Now we have this situation where they (migrant workers) are all buying scooters, converting their licenses easily and subsequently dying on the roads.
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As many posters have noted, there is an open ended question at the end of the (yes problematic) survey in which potentially valuable feedback could be found.
For someone who professes to not care about this process, you do seem to post quite a bit about it in this thread. I think you actually do care despite your denials. 
Guy
Case Study: A Tale of Two Drivers in Taiwan
James - QLD Australia
James grew up in Queensland, Australia. Like every responsible teenager at age 16, he spent 100 hours behind the wheel with his parents supervising as part of his learner logbook requirement. At 17, he passed a proper government-supervised driving test, earning his Red P-Plates. A year later, he took a hazard perception test to progress to his green P-Plates.
By 20, after years of strict probation and safe driving, James earned his full, unrestricted driver’s license. He drove for another six years without issue, racking up thousands of kilometers across highways, mountain roads, and cities.
Then, at age 26, he moved to Taiwan. What does Taiwan think of James’ license from a country with some of the highest safety standards in the world?
Despite his spotless record and superior training, James is told he must sit a pathetically easy written test and a laughable road test in Taiwan, something he passes effortlessly, of course. The entire process is not about safety (unlike Australia which allows conversions from countries that have good driver training). It is about “you won’t allow us so we won’t allow you.” - Something that James has no complaints about because it ensures Australian roads are safe from dangerous Taiwanese drivers…
Nguyen - Đắk Glong
Now meet Nguyen. He’s from a rural town in Vietnam where it’s common knowledge you can pay a bribe and get a driver’s license without ever touching a steering wheel. No road test. No hazard perception. No understanding of road rules.
Nguyen doesn’t even know what a pedestrian crossing is. He’s never needed to. But when he arrives in Taiwan as a migrant worker, the government rolls out the red carpet. His Vietnamese license is accepted, no questions asked. No road test. Nothing.
A few months later, Nguyen becomes yet another road safety statistic, blindsiding traffic by running a red light at night, lights off on his scooter, and getting himself killed in the process. No training, no awareness, no license worth the paper it was printed on.
Now the Ministry of Transport makes a dumb survey because they have no idea why the number of Vietnamese and Indonesian drivers dying on the roads have suddenly increased after allowing migrant workers to register scooters without permission of their employers…
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They focus too much on if traffic signs are unclear, which is not the big problem. Many motorcycle drivers, in particular, completely ignore traffic signs. I don’t think a traffic sign is necessary to understand that riding a motorcycle on pavements, not respecting zebra crossings, driving in the wrong way, etc., is not normal, it is just common sense.
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I don’t care enough to do the survey, but it’s a slow day at work and my next best option to forumosa is [sighs heavily]… research
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They can actually. But Indonesians need to do a written test but no practical test. Vietnamese can do a conversion without either
Car drivers, too…
Running red lights… changing lanes or turning without signalling or looking…
Fewer cars on the sidewalks (but some), a lot more cars illegally parked in ways that are dangerous or blocking lanes. Also plenty 9f cars in the scooter lanes and box when they fit/feel like it
Probably more scooter that come from small roads into larger roads without stopping or looking. Can’t put a sign at every intersection to say stop and look and yield!
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And I don’t know if I want to answer this survey, as a victim of a serious traffic accident almost 2 years ago and that has left me with physical and emotional scars for the rest of my life
Fracture of the right proximal humerus, head contusion, fracture of the left transverse process of the seventh cervical vertebra, fractures of the sixth to eighth ribs on the right side, contusion of the left shoulder and distal pin "bone and bone congestion and acromioclavicular joint ligament damage (resulting in 50% acromial joint displacement
and as I have already spoken enough with different authorities about the traffic problems in Taiwan and they never take it very seriously, I’m already bored of the subject, when I walk down the street I just cross my fingers that it doesn’t happen to me again
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Aren’t you Taiwanese?
aren’t
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…James appears to be paying at least as much attention to his passenger, who is not wearing a seatbelt, as he is to the road. James needs to do better if he is to hold himself up as an example.
If you see the side of car he’s in you will see that he is actually in Taiwan traffic. Behind him is his Taiwanese wife/girlfriend of whom he has had many arguments before about her not wearing a seatbelt in the car until he finally gave up so he could get some 
before bed.
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I can see why this would be a problem, after all the Taiwanese scooter driving test is incredibly rigorous, only the most skilled drivers are able to pass it.
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AFAIK they toughened the scooter test a little. Besides… having a test is better than no test.