Abstract :
This study is aims to determine the public perception of the act to turn on
the motor lights during the day in Surabaya, because safety riding is still weighing
the pros and contras.
Mass media is one of the means to satisfy the human need for information.
Media presents the activities or events that happen in people,s lives. Up between
the two are inseparable and need each other. The news presented by the mass
media is the result of selection of the various issues in society. Not all events or
events that occur in the human life displayed by the mass media.
Perception is an activity sensing, integrating and pass judgment on
physical objects and social objects, and the sensory stimulus depends on the
physical and social stimuli in the environment. Sensations from the environment
will be processed along with the things that have been studied previously, either it
be the expectations, values, attitudes, memories and others (Young, 1956:78).
This type of research is a qualitative study, using a descriptive study by
collecting data through in-depth interviews. Informants in this study were aged
over 17 years, using the motor, through an intersection of Mayangkara, based in
Surabaya and has a different profession, who understand the problems occurred as
regards content and research can provide the data needed by researchers. In the
interview involved four people: one person police ranked Ipda, the secretary of the
secretariat of Department Transportation of Joyoboyo Surabaya branch, one of the
employees of the government authorities in the city of Surabaya, and one student.
The results showed that three (informant one, two, and four) of the four
informants agreed regulatory motor lights in the daytime / safety riding (daytime
running light) is because the rules are very beneficial to motorists and to reduce
the number of road accidents , in addition to the third informant stated his opinion
on the rules engine lights on during the day / safety riding (daytime running light)
do not agree because the regulation only useless and not fit if the reason is only to
minimize road accidents.
Broadly speaking, be concluded that the regulation motors turn on the
lights during the day is very beneicial because with the lights motorcycle rider
then can help other motorists to be more cautious and thus the number of
accidents on the road will be reduced.
Keyword : Safety Riding, Oficial, Motor, Blazing, Detail Examination,
Global Warning