By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 06:54:58 +0000

First of all, allow me to thank Thomas and his team to work on making UAE roads a safer place. Driving in the UAE is a recurrent subject in any conversation within resident and local communities.
I’ve done some car rallyes in my life and drove many kilometres on many surfaces and what all this has taught me was humility.
I completely relate to the fact that Young Drivers have this feel of being invincible but my humble opinion is because they are not taught properly. A video, sadely, made me laugh when a driving educator was asking a student driver to drive AND text at the same time so that the student realized it was absolutely incompatible.
Most, if not all, governments diabolize speed but speed is not dangerous when you know how to do deal with it, when to do it and where to do it. And we are going back to education again where it is not enough shown how difficult it is to do an emergency braking at 60, 90 and 120km/h.
Driving is such a economic and political strategic issue starting with selling cars and everything that goes around it, that we prefer to level downwards rather than spending the time and effort to teach people well, making them developing the right reflexes AND accepting the fact that some, just can’t drive safely.
And here, I’m not necessarily making a car rallye pilot of every driver (even if, when you think about it, if you want safer roads…) but between how all driving schools are teaching and reaching the level of experience of a rallye pilote, I’m sure we could find a middle ground at least to make every young driver realize that driving is a serious “business” which need at all times a high level of concentration.
The other issue I see is that driving has become a given and a habit in the sense that drivers tend to not consider driving as seriously as it really is in terms of concentration demand. And that means when one drives one shouldn’t phone, shouldn’t smoke, shouldn’t eat, and shouldn’t do whatever drives his or her concentration away from driving.
Before taking about repression, I would strongly suggest to have a uniformed understanding of the traffic laws. I know the laws exist but I’m talking about drivers knowing them which would objectively be easier to follow.
A survey I would love to get is about how many versions of crossing a roundabout there would be depending on who you talk to. I would suspect to have as many versions as drivers you talk to.
Why should we assume that drivers from certain countries would be “better” than others? At least, before getting a driving license converted why not doing a thorough examination on the traffic laws? Then, and only then, you could organise some repression.

In a nutshell, driving is about bee taught the right responsibilized way, about propre driving skills and of course attitude. The problem is that driving skills are too often minimized counting too much on the responsibility and attitude of other drivers which as we see, is not enough.

By: Joseph Muhammad

Joseph Muhammad — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 11:13:38 +0000

One could also consider impounding the mobile phone with sim card and a period of community service as a possible deterrent to using phones whilst driving.
I quite agree that fines may not work on some rich people but adding inconvenience to their life may bother them more than a fine.

By: Safoora

Safoora — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 08:24:39 +0000

I think we should put up a sign saying please do not use your phone while driving and maybe a bit info on how many people die every year. also i do not think increasing the fees for not driving properly because this depends on the driver like for e.g. rich people can afford it and because of that they might think it is okay and for people who are maybe late for need to get there quickly.

Thank you.

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