Having to analyze Proton's performance, the main reason for Proton’s sales dropped is due to the increasingly competitive automotive landscape particularly from Perodua’s cars which offers decent performance at affordable price.
I think Malaysia is not ready to adopt any disruptive technology as the current Uber/grab and Airbnb is still leaving the regulator scratching their heads on how to tax people. That is it. They only want to tax people first, understand and adopt will come later
I totally agree with @cikxaijen about Perodua's performance. I am still very happy with my little kancil.
Hopefully the GST rate does not increase if more people adopt sharing economy platforms like Uber/grab and Airbnb.