Thread: High performance cars and young drivers

Obviously high performance vehicles should be banned...

Originally Posted by wanglemoose

banning big horsepower is not the answer, after all it was only a scoobydoo, an idiot is going to crash just as fast in an excell. i drove a 500rwhp supercharged 304 in a vk commodore round on my p's for 3 years and am still here despite spending a lot of time on highways doing over 250kph. its the simple matter of how and when you drive fast that is the major cause of crashes, along with driver training. me personally, i grew up racing rally cars so getting used to 200kph on the dirt makes doing it on the bitumen easy. that being said with learning on closed rally courses gave you a lot more respect for how dangerous cars can be when you get it wrong. these kids today get no training on how to control a car properly before they are given a license, they also keep the mentality of "i can drive, just look how good i do it on the playstation" driver training is the only thing that will save lives, you can crash a smart car and die just as easily as a 500hp turbo skyline.

So because you survived to tell the tale, the statistics are all wrong?

I'll tell that to the parents of the next 19yr old that I have to do a death notification for.....

In the past twenty years our state has almost halved the road toll. I'd attribute at least part of that to the restrictions placed on what vehicles a young inexperienced driver is allowed to get around in, and the number of passengers they can legally carry.

Monash University have done an interesting research about this issue
The PDF doc is HERE

Curtin University have another article here:

High levels of public concern about the lethal combination of young people and powerful cars are not justified, according to recent road safety research.

So, looks like to me that education and training have to be the best solution.

Make licenses much harder to get and much easier to lose. Need to break the thinking that driving is a right, once that changes I think attitudes to driving will start changing across the whole spectrum of drivers, not just p-platers.

Originally Posted by MEANZ06

Obviously high performance vehicles should be banned...

As the saying goes, ban low performance drivers, not high performance cars.

Yeah that works foolish people...

I wasn't easily insured for V8 years ago as they were "too powerful"...

But my XR6 (not turbo) could blow its doors off....

Get this V8s are too powerful idea out of your heads - it's like saying 4wd = fuel guzzler... It shows a lack of understanding and...........

I've had a "FourTwo" up to deadly speeds.... Imagine my bulk in one of them!!!! It can still kill you!


Train people properly, penalise harshly for ****ing up and people just *may* get the idea!

Originally Posted by MEANZ06

Obviously high performance vehicles should be banned...

World would be better if we banned "Low Performance Humans"

Originally Posted by Tombie

World would be better if we banned "Low Performance Humans"

How do I "thanks" more than once?