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A NORMAL Fiat has been modified to allow the driver to travel BACKWARDS. The unusual transformation by Harpeet Devin is an eye-catching alteration on the roads of Bhatinda, India. The vehicle has four gears to drive in reverse and just one to go forwards. He has even fitted an ambulance siren to alert other drivers and pedestrians and added headlights to the rear of his car.
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00:00Arpete Devi has found a unique way of making his driving stand out. He travels everywhere
00:09in reverse.
00:10I wanted to do it and that's why I thought I had something new to do. Then I saw something
00:21new to the world. That's why I wanted to do it.
00:28Arpete's unusual style behind the wheel has been a regular sight on the roads of Bhatinda
00:33in the Indian state of Punjab since 2003. He's modified his car, a Fiat Padmini, so that
00:40it now has four gears for reverse and only one going forwards, allowing him to drive backwards
00:46at speeds of up to 50 miles per hour. However, the reason he started driving in reverse in
00:51the first place was out of necessity rather than choice.
00:55After years of reversing, he now feels he's a safer driver going back to the road to the
01:02road.
01:03After years of reversing, he now feels he's a safer driver going back to the road.
01:10than he is going forwards and has been granted special permission by the state government
01:31to allow him to continue with his unusual style. To ensure safety, he's fitted an ambulance
01:38siren to alert other drivers and pedestrians to the fact that he's reversing.
01:45Crucially, he's also added headlights to the rear of his car.
01:49And while driving like this has brought him fame, it's also had an adverse effect on his
01:54health as he now suffers from back and neck problems.
02:01to the younger.
02:02He is now on the same thing.
02:03There is so many challenges by the road.
02:04And as soon as he's unending, it is the last.
02:05We can't stop the road from the road.
02:06In that case, you may not have a car, but it could be used as a car.
02:08But you're all alone on the road.
02:09And I'm going to bring out your step to the road to the road.
02:10Thinkело to the road in my description.
02:11And then you may be able to have a car.
02:12You might have a car.
02:14Oh, no, no.
02:15But you cannot keep going back to that road type.
02:16I'm not going to have to go back to that road.
02:17You may have to drive the road.
02:18I'm going back.
02:20And I'm going to have to move the road that I'm.

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