Thread: High performance cars and young drivers

Originally Posted by Sprint

So lets ban younger drivers in high performance cars.....

Assuming the Subaru in question was a WRX, being turbo'd means the 18yo P plate driver was either driving it illegally or had a permit..... dont really see the point of permits, but i know if you're on a permit and you get caught being naughty, the police really do go to town on you....

IF it wasnt a WRX, its P plater legal and not what I'd consider to be a "High performance vehicle"....

Also, the car was supposedly being driven at high speed, and at least 2 occupants werent wearing seatbelts....

So theres 2, maybe 3 laws that were broken..... and the answer to the problem is MORE laws and restrictions?

Sprint, you and others are absolutely right.
Is making additional laws the answer to stop people breaking existing laws?
This is a concept that appears to be beyond most.

Perhaps we need to step back a bit and see why some of these younger drivers drive the way they do. I personally think many of the bad habits (which may contribute to fatal habits) are a result of their experience around other drivers, many of which are much older who have been driving a lot longer.

I see so many older drivers breaking many of the most basic road rules and this "slack" attitude gets passed down. It becomes accepted and the core attitude is the lack of respect for other motorists.

So I am all in favour of EVERYONE having to do some sort of driving test throughout their entire lives. Say every 5 years, obviously as a "refresher" course/test including a driving simulation. We have the technology to make this an easy and cheap process, entirely online if necessary.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Funnily enough, no.
I too am a safe and courteous driver so I know how to drive around Volvo drivers.

Looking at the list of cars you own I highly doubt that.

Education rather than more restrictions. If young people wish to drive higher power vehicles they should be assessed and licensed to do so. (not no two day course either)
Don’t ban high performance cars, restrict low performance drivers.
Driving is a privilege, not a right.

Here's a hyperthetical question for you good folk,I went down to the Gold Coast area this afternoon, and passed a couple of NSW "P" plated cars,these vehicles have on their "P" a little restriction in a circle (80) but they were travelling at about 95/100 which was not in anyway impeeding the traffic flow,I was following them for a few KLMs, BUT,how do they stand in Qld from a police point of view,they were within the speed limit in Qld, so does the NSW restriction stand in this state? or not.

I have no association with these vehicles merely observed them.


cheers

My understanding on that one is that they must drive to the conditions of their license, ie. NSW restricted speed.

However, was it red or green P plates? Neither are 80km/h. Red 90, green 100. So if they were actually green they were driving legally in terms of speed.

and as for restricting "high performance cars", would you conside any of these to be "high performance"?

Holden Astra turbo diesel
Mazda3
Hyundai Excel
Toyota Hilux 2.4L

Guess what? all P platers cars that have tried baiting me into racing them from the lights locally.... Funny how none of them try it when I bring my XR8 out to play.....

Yup.

If the restriction is on a state licence, then it's only applicable within the state of issue.

Matt