Its not just the drivers in Dubai who are bad...pedestrians are getting worse as well. Here's a little incident that happened to me the other day:
I was parked in a public parking space in one of the slip roads in Bur Dubai. There are loads of empty spaces and my car is technically in the middle of nowhere. I check my mirrors, do a look behind me, there is nothing around me and start to reverse out of the space without actually backing into the slip road...at which point a guy steps off the pavement, walks directly behind me and then bangs the back of my car with his hand!
He then tries to tell me I reversed into him without looking!
The dude was on the pavement when I started moving and just didn't look before stepping off and wandering into a 'car zone'...
He got told in no uncertain terms!
Knight