Wow those are some crazy driving skills. If the driver messes up, it ain't going to be pretty seeing the SUV skidding on its side at 50 mph.
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The headline of one of the newspapers here in Dubai today: YOUTUBE DRIVERS BUSTED Game is up for video nasty motorists Four guys got arrested. It was part of a procession of fans for a soccer club. There were police escorts but they were at the back of the procession and did not see these guys, who were at the front.
Some background: Emaratis are really really good drivers, in every way. The two wheeling and the donuts are very common, and you can say that about 10 years ago it wasn't uncommon to see it if you went into certain areas/neighborhoods. Now, it's less common and when it's done they go to certain places where it's only a danger to themselves. In any case, it's illegal. In this particular video, the actions are apparently a celebration of a football team's win in some tournament. The cars behind are mostly their buddies blocking off traffic. Everyone's happy that these guys have been arrested. Not in Dubai. It's done in the autodrome and in certain roads basically on the border of the country where no one goes. Drivers arrested Sorry to tell you dude, your friend is either delusional or a liar. No one is so classless/idiotic to drift in a ferrari or maserati, and if it happened, it is certainly an exception where they are lucky that the police didn't see them. Such a stunt would lead to impounding the car and driver license for a year + prison if others are endangered (in this case, upto 3 years). Contrary to just a few years ago, no more "favors" are granted for friends and people with connections. Essentially the only relief you could get for this is to impound it for 3 out of the 12 months, and pay $30 per day for the rest of the impound period ($8,000+). Even then, you're essentially on probation and will find it difficult to get any insurance on your car (which is mandatory). As for racing, there are cameras/radars aessentially every 100-200m on all major freeways/highways inside Dubai now. Racing is essentially impossible, unless you do it on traffic-filled roads at a maximum speed of 80-120 kilometers per hour. It's a small city and there's police everywhere now. There will always be the occasional maniacs, but I think the article (link above) shows which way Dubai has gone in terms of road safety - overcompensation to instill the culture of road safety on everyone. Here's a rule that's coming up: talking on your cellphone without a hands-free set may cost $1,500 in the coming revisions to road safety rules. lol
Mathloom is right, I don't think this vid portrays Dubai the way it is now. I visited Dubai back in the 90s and then the early 00s and finally this December. The change in skyline, the price of real-estate (if only I had purchased some land in 1990 ), and the overall shift in attitude (some say shameless arrogance) is insanely remarkable and only topped by places like Shenzhen (don't get me started on China's transformation). The city now appeared more well-behaved and 'polished', as some of the ridiculous behavior that new-wealth brings that I saw at the beginning of the millennium was replaced by an Abu Dhabi-like vibe (hard to describe if you haven't been). With all these new laws and regulation, Dubai is different from the city that the (pre-2008) Las Vegas of the Middle East stereotype implies.
