Saudis: driving in the rearview mirror - The Arab View
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He went on to say that these days, calls for women to drive do not reflect the majority opinion and that those voices come only from affluent women and not from those who have more pressing problems in their lives to deal with. He ended his article by saying that if women drive, there is bound to be an increase in accidents since women will be busy looking in the mirror instead of concentrating on the road.
I wonder if the writer — a Saudi male — has ever observed the number of Saudi men who adjust their headdress by looking in the rearview mirror while they are driving. I wonder if he has ever observed Saudi men who turn the rearview mirror to a vertical position so that they can get a better view of their headdress and how it hangs. All this, of course, done while driving. And he has the nerve to ask that mirrors be removed from cars which women might drive. Talk about pots calling kettles black.
The sad fact is that Saudi Arabia has the highest rate of car accidents per capita in the world. We need to remind the writer that this is true in a country where women are in the car but never behind the wheel. All these accidents and these shameful statistics derive from men. It is known and has been documented in many studies done in many different countries that women are much more careful when driving; insurance charges reflect this fact.
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He went on to say that these days, calls for women to drive do not reflect the majority opinion and that those voices come only from affluent women and not from those who have more pressing problems in their lives to deal with. He ended his article by saying that if women drive, there is bound to be an increase in accidents since women will be busy looking in the mirror instead of concentrating on the road.
I wonder if the writer — a Saudi male — has ever observed the number of Saudi men who adjust their headdress by looking in the rearview mirror while they are driving. I wonder if he has ever observed Saudi men who turn the rearview mirror to a vertical position so that they can get a better view of their headdress and how it hangs. All this, of course, done while driving. And he has the nerve to ask that mirrors be removed from cars which women might drive. Talk about pots calling kettles black.
The sad fact is that Saudi Arabia has the highest rate of car accidents per capita in the world. We need to remind the writer that this is true in a country where women are in the car but never behind the wheel. All these accidents and these shameful statistics derive from men. It is known and has been documented in many studies done in many different countries that women are much more careful when driving; insurance charges reflect this fact.
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posted by John B. Chilton at 4/09/2005 06:30:00 PM
1 Comments:
"Talk about pots calling kettles black". No, I think we're talking about a halfwit somethingorother. My car was hit once (in a crowded car park in Dubai) by a local chappie who had spotted a space but needed to reverse a bit to get into it. I was bwhind him and couldn't get out of the way because there was a queue of cars behind me. He couldn't see me because the rear-window curtains of his old Mercedes were closed. Not quite sure why he couldn't hear me blasting hell out of the car's horn.
Fortunately, I was in a big old Jeep Cherokee, and the only damage was that he bent my number plate. His Merc, on the other hand, was somewhat more bent. The police found it most amusing. But the perp could not understand why I was not carted off to jail.
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