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I have no been to Saudi Arabia (yet), so I did not shoot this video. However, if you have taking your time to read this, I will explain to you how it is possible.
1) The roads in the Arab world are slick and smooth. Much better than the roads anywhere else in the world, and that includes the super-highways of the USA and Canada. Their roads are made so that cars such as the Lamborghini, Ferrari, Dodge and other low-riding sports cars can glide across them at insane speeds.
2) Sandals like those have no traction. They are leather at the bottom and it is easy to slip if you're not careful. This lack of traction makes it easy for them to glide on an already smooth road.
3) Speed. In order to do with with relative 'grace' you need speed. Too slow, and the sandals might give traction, too fast and you might loose your grip. I say that they were doing around 80KM/H, around 55MP/H, my guess. However, I wouldn't put it past them if they were cruising over 100mph.
(Explanation courtesy youtube reposter)
1) The roads in the Arab world are slick and smooth. Much better than the roads anywhere else in the world, and that includes the super-highways of the USA and Canada. Their roads are made so that cars such as the Lamborghini, Ferrari, Dodge and other low-riding sports cars can glide across them at insane speeds.
2) Sandals like those have no traction. They are leather at the bottom and it is easy to slip if you're not careful. This lack of traction makes it easy for them to glide on an already smooth road.
3) Speed. In order to do with with relative 'grace' you need speed. Too slow, and the sandals might give traction, too fast and you might loose your grip. I say that they were doing around 80KM/H, around 55MP/H, my guess. However, I wouldn't put it past them if they were cruising over 100mph.
(Explanation courtesy youtube reposter)
My apologies for the weird noise at 5 seconds in; rest of it's interesting to watch - and kinda freaky. Wasn't sure if it's appropriate to tag this as comedy or geek... settled on geek.
Meh, this would be great with the *action tag. We need that channel... [geek tag removed]
New & improved version featuring original soundtrack and commentary box filled in!
(I recommend replacing the embed.
And in an attempt to help this post regain some of the dupe votes, *doublepromote these nutcopaths.
*wtf
I can assure you that Saudi Arabia is an exception in the Arab world in this respect.
I can't believe none of you have gone car door skiing in the rain. You have no lives. It's a rite of passage.
A friend of mine had his cruise control on a wired remote so he could do this while driving the car with us out the other three doors... this was before the YouTube... heck, it was before the Interwebs. Wish I had the cash back then to film it (no such thing as digital imaging).