Your editorial Give squash its due (August 9) was spot on. Squash deserves to be at the Olympics due to the skill and fitness levels required to play the game.

However, it has terrible viewing angles for spectators. Other events can accommodate hundreds or thousands of ticket-buying spectators, while squash can be viewed by merely over a few dozen spectators.

Its best bet will be to try and join the Winter Olympics.

Owen Neale, Iraq

Dash cams can help solve traffic problems

Rude and impatient drivers are a huge problem on our roads ("Rude and Impatient drivers to blame for rise in deaths", August 8). Everyone on the road knows it, and time after time we see articles highlighting the danger. Yet the behaviour never changes.

As long as the culture of allowing these drivers to continue to drive like this with impunity remains, nothing will change.

One thing that could help would be to allow drivers to use dashboard cameras. Having video proof of bad drivers to present to police would go a long way to stop this problem.

Police cannot be present everywhere, so dashboard cameras could be a very useful tool to identify the bad drivers. The Government should rethink the law that criminalises use of these cameras, because the privacy they are so concerned about protecting is only protecting the bad drivers.

Liz Jones, Dubai

Maybe it is time to consider the use of automated speed monitoring equipment in all vehicles on our highways that will help police to monitor speed.

I know of one company which fitted its vehicles with automated speed monitoring equipment that reported back to the company when the vehicle was driven more than 10kph over the speed limit.

Such equipment can be first tried in those vehicles that had been involved in speed-related incidents. Fines should be used as a means to regulate speed.

Name withheld by request

I refer to the story, Lorry accident prompts Emirati to call for blind-spot mirrors (August 8). Unfortunately, there is a culture here of bad road manners.

The psychology that going fast makes you a bigger man is something that won’t go away unless there are massive penalties.

The driving tests should be much harder and you should be limited on the kind of vehicles you can drive for the first two years.

Lastly, the police need to play a more active role. Education is the most important to stop this horrible culture of rude, ignorant driving. Simply blaming lorry drivers is not fair.

Robert Bradley, Abu Dhabi

I worked in a transportation company where lorry drivers were bullied and threatened if they did not meet the deadlines of delivery.

These drivers were paid a minimum wage and got commission for their trips. If they incurred traffic fines, the amounts were deducted from their salary.

Hans Borst, Dubai

You can be road-educated, but if you don’t have mirrors you can’t see. And if you can’t see you can only guess. And sometimes you guess wrong. So yes to more road education, but this shouldn’t replace blind-spot mirrors.

Ivana Emme, Dubai

If heavy-vehicle drivers learnt to give way to all traffic, regardless of size, it would have been helpful. Education on how to use roundabouts would help too. And if all heavy-vehicle drivers received an immediate loss of licence for breaking any road rules, that would eliminate the problem completely.

Michael Grantham, Dubai

Property has not bottomed out

Having flat pricing across two quarters in no way suggests the market has bottomed out (Dubizzle says Dubai property market has bottomed out, but Abu Dhabi sales and rents under pressure, August 9).

It’s also interesting to note that the a large number of people suggesting it has bottomed have a vested interest in people believing it has.

James Holmes, Dubai