Women in Saudi Arabia are allowed to drive from today, ending a ban that stained its reputation, kept women subjugated and hindered economic growth.

The move places Saudi women at the centre of a major transformation being spearheaded by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

There is also a tug-of-war between those agitating for more openings for them and a religious majority that remains wary of changes that could be influenced by the West.

Women in Saudi Arabia are able to drive for the first time ever as part of a historic move by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.


Female drivers have been practicing in the run-up to the driving ban that was lifted at midnight local time in Saudi Arabia.





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Saudi women are pictured with their new driving licence after the country's driving ban ended.


Saudi women hold their diplomas during the graduation ceremony of Saudi women car-accident inspectors, a few days before women are set to take the wheel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.


Women takes a selfie with her phone as she celebrates with Saudi and Bahraini women the lifting of the driving ban on women, in east Saudi Arabia.
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Racer Aseel Al Hamad marked the end of the ban on women drivers in Saudi Arabia with a special drive in a Jaguar F-TYPE.


A moment to celebrate for female drivers who have their licenses as they are finally able to drive in their country.



Women were asked to put on goggles that impaired their vision, to understand the effects on driving from medication, drowsiness or drunkenness.


Then they had to pilot a small wheel on the end of a pole across a map on the ground while paying attention to streets, stop signs and pedestrians.


There was also a brief talk about road safety, car accidents and the huge number of them caused by texting at the wheel.

A Saudi woman seen practicing to reverse a car in Riyadh back in April ahead of the lifting of a driving ban.


A potential female driver is taught by another woman using a simulator car at a training centre in Riyadh.


Practice has taken many forms, with some women, seen here, putting on helmets to try go-karting at an educational driving even in Jeddah.

Finally..
Change is constant..

Pink women-only parking spaces have been set up across Saudi Arabia.

Saudi women at Effat University in Jidda took a car safety course for the first time .

So I can now travel to Riyadh, Jedda or Mecca and have a Saudi woman suck my dick?

Still, can Saudi women twerk at a concert in front of the wahhabis?

Though they're now allowed to drive, but write this somewhere, the Saudi oligarchs will still not allow their women to be a professional taxi driver, neither would a Saudi husband allow his wife to drive him around. #Shithole country

OK nice development.

Congrats to the women folks. If any guy wants to mess up with a woman's car now......

Women poses for a photo after attending a driving course at a Jeddah University.

Women gesture during training.

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This is a welcome development for a country that recognizes a strict brand of sharia faith and practice.

kudos to the Monarch

Nawa o... Living in bondage See as them dey happy.

wow! finally

Finally free from modernize slavery...A right step in a right direction.

so.long.

After soo many years of Islamic boundage that allows men to do just what ever they want and see women like animals who do not deserve to enjoy the good things of life

Is it not the same Islam they are practicing that Notthern Nigeria is also practing? How come they are far more developed?

Congrats to Saudi, life is all about progress.

Getting out of forced caging gradually.

Majority of women no sabi driving.

Wait O, na W222 person dey use learn driving?

Somatic:
Wait O, na W222 person dey use learn driving?

Levels Sir

Somatic:
Wait O, na W222 person dey use learn driving?

me de hia de TREKKKKK.. mtchewwww..

nice one, but the why the ban in The first place. women are realy suffering in such countries as saudi arabia. even during their last game against egypt in the world cup, people were holding sign with the inscrption, that they should allow their women acces into their stadiums. I was shocked to see it, so their women can't enter their stadiums to whatch a football match in this 21st century.