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Hello everyone,
I just read the gulf news paper today, as of 27th November, and i have a few things to say and i hope i get a lot of responses (good or bad) on this issue.

Apparently everyone believes that speed kills, that is incorrect

Apparently, people who do eventually speed down the roads, drive cars that are not built for handling such speeds (140+kpr)

Apparently, people who do have the cars that are built for speeds (BMW's, VW, Porsche, Mercedes, high-end Toyota's and Lexus etc) fail to check the vehicles tires, tire pressure, fluids, brakes and so on.

Those three reasons are all the main issue of why there are so many high-speed crashes here in the city of Dubai.

With the exception of just carless drivers/rubber neckers, i want to just point something out.

I have lived in Dubai for 20+ years, i visited Germany (step-father is German) and you will be so suprised on their laws/regulations. They have no speed limits on the Autobahan, i personally was travelling on speeds over 220+kpr with my step-father. Other cars were overtaking us at those speeds, but the issue is that they are very sensible and you will rarely find an accident on the highway.....

Remember, speed doesn't kill, it is the comination of a careless driver, in a low-performance car/high-performance yet badly cared for car.

I wish to see just how many of you are with/again my views, or just you're general responses.

TIA

Lesser accidents on Autobahn cause even though people drive at warp speed they exercise due care, courtesy and caution. You don't see retards in a sunny/civic/echo/etc or big suburbans hogging the 'fast' lane proclaiming his/her ownership of the road.

Again, very true....

We could be suffering from having too many retards here......LOL

Anyways, this point was covered in the first post, when people speed or exceed the limit of the cars that were not built for such abuse in the first place.

hosrom_951 wrote:We could be suffering from having too many retards here......LOL

You might be on to something there

That said you may have missed my point - add "driver attitude" as another posibility.

I don't want to go there.........that's a new topic all by itself......

Think i'll stick to taking cabs...toooo much hassle...have to take test/fail/test/fail/...buy a car...get on the road..get bumped...WTF??...lol...stick to me cabs...can get pissed on friday nights easier...just disgrunted...

Cad drivers piss the heck out of me.........

A small handfull of them are great, but the majority are just pathetic.

They drive as if they are racing, don't care if they exceed the limit (even though the alarm goes on from the meter), squeeze in and out of traffic like their car is a Mini.......

Sorry..........

when i was there...no problem...i am yet to live there...so i guess i will get my fairshare...

This really should be in the auto forum...

That being said, I was cruising along at 140 yesterday and there was a Lada blocking me on the fast lane... He was going 70!!!!! MORON!!!!

I am renting an Echo now so I am not really one to talk but at least I was doing the limit...

Almost as good as the chick in front of me on SZR at around 5:30pm. Cut across into the fast lane doing 100 and didn't get the ol' pug moving much faster than that. I had 2 guys flashing me from behind so I gave her a flicker and got the lovely middle digit salute. Had a chuckle.

I will not respond to this topic, otherwise I will be on my "high-chair" all night.

Needless to say, a good majority of the drivers here are utter wankers!

Ooooooooooooooo, actually, perhaps it is me that is the wanker and the way people drive here is the norm! hahahahahaha

Driving 140kpr on Al Khail road this evening, when a Corolla decided to stick to my rear and give me light.....

Just floored it for a couple of seconds, got him off my back.......didn't even have to downshift to 5th gear.

He never did that same move for as long as i could see him.......

Goodness.......140+ in a corolla? death wish if you ask me

Corolla's can do 140kph... C'mon... I do it in the rental Civic all the time, and did it quite often in the rental Escort...

Liban wrote:This really should be in the auto forum...

That being said, I was cruising along at 140 yesterday and there was a Lada blocking me on the fast lane... He was going 70!!!!! MORON!!!!

I am renting an Echo now so I am not really one to talk but at least I was doing the limit...

Renting !!! and moreover an echo!!!!!!! Damn u will spoil the image of canaidians! Tell me ur location so I can flaten ur car with my......