proposed new laws
 

saw this link on antilag and even though it makes a big point of v8`s it also affects any p plater driving a performance car
[url]http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,24229545-2761,00.html[/url]

spewing for p platers

Sigh. I'd really like to see their plan for distributing the funds.

glad ive done my time as a p plater, they have done sweet fuck all for road safety with the millions and millions of dollars they get each year from fines etc whats another million gonna do?

Cant believe the fuck heads that politicians are. One of those examples used in the article was from 1984 where a drunk, driving a stolen car crashed, clearly him being drunk was why he crashed, mentions nothing about him being in a high powered car! Other example is a commodore those v6s are quick pffft.

They should ban fucking commodores

This isn't going to work
fullstop

[QUOTE=Brendan08]This isn't going to work
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Maybe not. But if 17-23 yr olds are responsible for around 50% of road deaths they need to do something. You can go pretty quick in a 4 cylinder n/a car, my shitty old magna did 180. But the thing is, it was not designed to do those speeds safely and was scary as shit at that speed. I never took it over 130 after that. Now you stick a young kid in an Excel he may choose to try and go as fast as it will go, but he will learn pretty quickly it's no fun driving something like that fast. However you give him a nice turboed car or a V8 that hums along nice and 'safely' at 190 then he will more tempted. Obviously these laws penalise safe and responsible P-platers, but I can't see a way they can separate good from bad P-Platers. Perhaps increasing the amounts of points a P-Plater gets when speeding. You do 20 over you get 8 points. Its pretty hard to do 20 over accidently. Tough I know, but that would be a system that would reward safe drivers, or rather punish irresponsible ones. A lot of people have mentioned additional training, which is great, but it really doesn't stop things like young kids dragging. They know it's wrong, they've been told in their additional road safety course "don't speed" or "speed kills" but they still do it because they're 17 and have a nice powerful car. They won't want to drag in their Mums pink Excel.

Same concept applied to motorbikes, same concept should be applied to cars.

NSW has had this for a while now too, inevitable for WA. Won't stop it all, but i suspect it will make a good step in the right direction.

Sucks to be a P-Plater, even more so if you are a 'sensible' driver and enjoy these type of cars, but it's always other people who fuck it up for the guys doing the right thing.

Will save lives, has to be a good thing - There is no 'one' solution, several have to be applied.

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what happens to the p platers that have a turbo car at the moment they have to sell em

[QUOTE=romeo]what happens to the p platers that have a turbo car at the moment they have to sell em[/QUOTE]

Reading helps alot these days.

"EXCLUSIVE: P-PLATERS will be banned from driving high-powered cars under Labor - and [U]confiscated[/U] vehicles will be sold, even if they belong to drivers' parents"