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Saudi Arabia will lift its ban on women drivers in June 2018, in a move the interior minister said would "transform traffic safety":
Saudi Arabia's lifting of a much criticized ban on women drivers will reduce the number of car crashes in a country with one of the world's worst traffic-related death rates, its interior minister said on Thursday.
King Salman announced the historic change on Tuesday, ending a conservative tradition which limited women's mobility and was seen by rights activists as an emblem of their suppression in the kingdom where Islam originated.
Saudi Arabia was the only remaining country in the world to bar women from driving, a policy that will officially end in June 2018 after a ministerial committee reports on measures needed for implementation.
Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Nayef, the interior minister who took over from his uncle in June, said security forces were ready to apply traffic laws to men and women, though he did not mention if women would be recruited as traffic police.
"Women driving cars will transform traffic safety into a pedagogical practice which will reduce human and economic losses caused by accidents," he was quoted as saying on the ministry's official Twitter feed. He did not elaborate.
The current King of Saudi Arabia was crowned on January 23, 2015.
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(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @09:38PM (5 children)
After 16 years maybe it's time to invade the people that actually did it, but but but... bandar bush
Eisenhower was right and no one has been paying attention, time to water the tree of libery
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Friday September 29 2017, @09:46PM
16 years after their boys managed to crash transcontinental planes into skyscrapers, and seeing that they still have some of the deadliest roads around, the Saudi have decided that maybe there was value in women's safer driving habits. As long as they keep them from owning cellphones, at least.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday September 29 2017, @10:45PM (3 children)
Don't forget about the Jews. We gotta take those goddamn Jews out, too.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @11:24PM (1 child)
What about international bankers? Let's take them out too.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @05:58AM
-1 redundant
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @04:01AM
SA is a good friend of the Israelis, so taking out the SA's should hurt the Israelis too.
We know SA's are credited with flying planes into buildings, but they were idiots who could not fly small planes. In addition to that, civilian airplanes are not able to make the maneuvers those planes did.
Look here at the taxi driver who confesses to lying about his taxi being hit with a light pole:
Cab Driver Involved In 9/11 Pentagon Attack - He admits that it was PLANNED! [youtube.com]