What's the driving really like...?
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Being an expat in Kuwait, I often get enquiries from people looking to move here for work and invariably the main concern they have is of the standard of driving.
There's so much on the web about how bad the driving is here. Well yes it can be a little aggresive and yes there are some real hum-dingers of accidents, my thought in the majority of these accidents is quite simple..."How on earth did they manage that?" So often the accident is a single vehicle one and can really only be put down to at the most poor driving or at least to poor maintenance of the vehicle (tyres especially).
Now that it's summer here and the temperatures are up in the mid 40s, imagine what the temperature of the actual road surface is...I guess at least another 10-20 degrees hotter. This is why we now see so many cars parked (or crashed) as a result of tyre problems. Simple answer here is to make sure that your tyres are correctly inflated (low pressure leads to overheating) along with making sure that there is no damage to them and that they have sufficient tread left. When your tyres are bald there's less rubber in them to accommodate the temperatures induced by driving, this leads to explosive deflation with the obvious results. Try touching the tyres after a decent drive and you'll soon realise what I'm saying.
Remember it's not just you that is affected by your poor maintenance of your car, take as an example the delays on the Fahaheel highyway near Shaab yesterday afternoon. One car (SUV) had managed to crash and land upside down on the central reservation (I hope the driver was OK), but the tailbacks were on both carriagways of the road.
Here's the picture...
As I mentioned a lot of enquiries come to me and I hope that the above is of use, but I also hope that this does not put anyone off coming here, this is just one example, remember that there are thousands of other road users here who don't have this sort of problem.
Being an expat in Kuwait, I often get enquiries from people looking to move here for work and invariably the main concern they have is of the standard of driving.
There's so much on the web about how bad the driving is here. Well yes it can be a little aggresive and yes there are some real hum-dingers of accidents, my thought in the majority of these accidents is quite simple..."How on earth did they manage that?" So often the accident is a single vehicle one and can really only be put down to at the most poor driving or at least to poor maintenance of the vehicle (tyres especially).
Now that it's summer here and the temperatures are up in the mid 40s, imagine what the temperature of the actual road surface is...I guess at least another 10-20 degrees hotter. This is why we now see so many cars parked (or crashed) as a result of tyre problems. Simple answer here is to make sure that your tyres are correctly inflated (low pressure leads to overheating) along with making sure that there is no damage to them and that they have sufficient tread left. When your tyres are bald there's less rubber in them to accommodate the temperatures induced by driving, this leads to explosive deflation with the obvious results. Try touching the tyres after a decent drive and you'll soon realise what I'm saying.
Remember it's not just you that is affected by your poor maintenance of your car, take as an example the delays on the Fahaheel highyway near Shaab yesterday afternoon. One car (SUV) had managed to crash and land upside down on the central reservation (I hope the driver was OK), but the tailbacks were on both carriagways of the road.
Here's the picture...
As I mentioned a lot of enquiries come to me and I hope that the above is of use, but I also hope that this does not put anyone off coming here, this is just one example, remember that there are thousands of other road users here who don't have this sort of problem.
posted by Witsinkw at
9:53 AM
1 Comments:
Driving espically in the summer can drive people crazy! ;)
Nice blog, by the way!
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