I have to disagree with you.
From my experience, most of the stupidity seem to be by Indian nationals.
I'm not being racist, nor pointing the finger. If I have to be honest, I should say Indian looking.
In 3 out of the 4 near hits I've had, they were Indian looking. (I'm a very carefull driver too). One was by an arabic woman who was driving down a one way road. She even gave me the sign language as if to say I was wrong. When she saw my angry face and that I was going to park and get out, she tried to smile and said sorry (which pissed me off even more).
I can only hope that the government will be MUCH more stricter when handing out licenses.
It's nice to see that your story had a 'sort-of' happy ending. I truely believe though, that with the new traffic laws and the point system, the truely bad drivers will be weeded out sooner or later. Let's hang tight and be patient drivers before then.
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I have to disagree with you.
From my experience, most of the stupidity seem to be by Indian nationals.
I'm not being racist, nor pointing the finger. If I have to be honest, I should say Indian looking.
The thing is that they come to Qatar with their background of driving in India. See here http://youtube.com/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM
Or even no license at all.
In 3 out of the 4 near hits I've had, they were Indian looking. (I'm a very carefull driver too). One was by an arabic woman who was driving down a one way road. She even gave me the sign language as if to say I was wrong. When she saw my angry face and that I was going to park and get out, she tried to smile and said sorry (which pissed me off even more).
I can only hope that the government will be MUCH more stricter when handing out licenses.
It's nice to see that your story had a 'sort-of' happy ending. I truely believe though, that with the new traffic laws and the point system, the truely bad drivers will be weeded out sooner or later. Let's hang tight and be patient drivers before then.
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