Jiga
Active Member
No they are stupid.In all fairness, passenger restrictions aren't that bad. The aim of them is to stop 17 year old, inexperienced drivers from carrying a car full of drunk, distracting passengers at 3am, and that's reasonable. So some 17 year olds have to be home by 11. Boo fucking hoo. It's not really going to effect anything other than some teenage kid's social life, and that's not a government priority.
The only way you learn how to drive with passengers (ie focusing on the road instead of the drunken conversation) is through experience, having one year with a single passenger will do nothing... and by the time people get their greens they will then have full passengers, and then have to deal with the exact same problems they do now with no restritrictions on passengers. This is a bandade solution in every sense of the word. From my personal experience, Id say having a car full of drunken incoherent passengers is a good thing once you get used to it(2 trips or so), I know when I drive mates Im wide awake, once I continue onto my house alone I start to feel tired as there is no-one making noise or anyone to talk to. And this is on top of the fact that I drive slower etc cos Im mindful of having 5 lives on board and dont want to do anything stupid.... not the case when Im alone in the car with empty streets to play in!
And also, this 'there 17 they cant go out and dirnk n e way' argument is bullsh*t, I know a large number of people who didnt get their P's at 18 and everyone has their p's for a couple of months while their 18... so no they are screwing up the dezo system etc, only time will tell the effects of this - increased crime, irresponsible drinking, drink driving etc
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