It is easy and often tempting to blame local parenting or the local's attitude for the road carnage and appalling statistics amongst locals and their victims. (They generally crash into someone). The locals of the UAE have had technology thrust upon them in a very short time frame. As mentioned previously, two generations ago they where on camels and now they are in Ferraris. That is not a lot of time to develop the responsibilty that goes with that technology. Their society didn't start with the Model T Ford.
If you see a child sitting on the lap of a driver doing 160+ (aka 'arabic airbag') it is not that the driver cares less for their child than you do for yours, or that they love theirs any less. They do it because they are ignorant of the dangers. As a young Spag Monster, I remember leaning over the front seat of Dad's car, unsecured, as we drove down the freeway. Did he not care for me? The awareness simply was not there amongst the public that this was stupid. So how did the risks become known....? The authorities (government) took responsibility and started to educate the populace about the risks and punish the offenders. The lesson was soon learnt. There is no excuse for a society now embracing these new technologies, not to take notice of the lessons learnt from those before them.
This is where the real tragedy lies, the UAE, Dubai in particular can make great claims about their abililty to move oceans, create civilizations, break world records, build the biggest and best, concieve underwater hotels and offer ski slopes in the desert. But what they appear incapable of doing, indeed unwilling to commit to, is to stop their youth from killling themselves. With all this wealth and opportunity, they just simply can't do it.