Jiga
Active Member
I think alot of people are 100% right on this. Personally, like many others, the ban on passengers is a crock of sh*t. Even the NRMA guy on TV said something to the effect of 'I dont want my 17 year old daughter being stranded in the middle of nowhere because the designated driver cant take her'... classic case of why this would be stupid. And there is also the whole designated driver system, everyone I kno does this (cant say the same for older people!)... by limiting passengers they are going to encourage drink driving, at the very least they cant have it both ways, its either no passengers & an increase in the BAC allowed or passengers and keep it at 0!!
As for the testing and 1 strike idea, I am ok with these... I think the 1 strike and your out system will work very well tbh, I know whenever its double demerit weekends on your reds... you dont speed at all because its one strike and your out!
Only thing I can add though as others have said, is scrap this idea of increasing L's to 100hours or whatever... driving with mummy and daddy is piss easy, they need to bring in driver training courses... so that younger drivers understand first hand (as opposed to some boring speaker telling them) the limitations of their cars... and then also teach them how to control the vehcile in an emergency situation (Particularly important when you consider that younger drivers usually have older cars without ABS etc... so the chances of them getting into a bad situation and not having the same back up as many full licenses holders have in newer cars is higher - like basic things like no power steering so response is slower, no abs so simple braking in the wet is a hazard, and newer things like stability control which let cars fitted hit corners at like 100km/h and maintain control while da avg p-plater car loses it at 50km/h as a result of mis-judgement etc)
As for the testing and 1 strike idea, I am ok with these... I think the 1 strike and your out system will work very well tbh, I know whenever its double demerit weekends on your reds... you dont speed at all because its one strike and your out!
Only thing I can add though as others have said, is scrap this idea of increasing L's to 100hours or whatever... driving with mummy and daddy is piss easy, they need to bring in driver training courses... so that younger drivers understand first hand (as opposed to some boring speaker telling them) the limitations of their cars... and then also teach them how to control the vehcile in an emergency situation (Particularly important when you consider that younger drivers usually have older cars without ABS etc... so the chances of them getting into a bad situation and not having the same back up as many full licenses holders have in newer cars is higher - like basic things like no power steering so response is slower, no abs so simple braking in the wet is a hazard, and newer things like stability control which let cars fitted hit corners at like 100km/h and maintain control while da avg p-plater car loses it at 50km/h as a result of mis-judgement etc)
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