P Platers driving 'high powered vehicles'

[Davros Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Davros]

I sympathise with the cause however its not so clear these days.

At 45 I got my license in 1983.

As you are now 73 years old and driving around in a highly modified vehicle which weighs in excess of two tonnes,

I say, YOU SIR ARE THE PROBLEM!!!!

[letsgoplaces Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close letsgoplaces]

Davros, MLC is actually 45 now and was 17 in '83 when he got his licence.
Not saying that he's still not the problem now though

[Madkore Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Madkore]

Are we saying MLC is the problem or has problems?

[tassie tiger Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close tassie tiger]

I really think that P platers are used as scape goats and whipping boys. The need to point fingers and find a boogie man.

Sure, they are more representative in collisions statistically. But they also probably do a lot more miles than most, other than professional drivers.

Think back to your youth. If it was anything like mine the second i got my licence and car I was forever out. At all hours of the day and night. We used to drive from coffs harbour down to sydney, go to a concert and straight back home. Once I left home and lived in canberra I would drive back up to coffs on a friday night and home again on the sunday.

Sure there are wallies amongst them and yep occasionally it all goes wrong and more often than not there are 3 or 4 in the car.

We have just bought a new corolla sport. This thing flies and is legal for any young person to drive. The power to weight would smoke my old VK SS and even my old 2.1l Escort Rally car. It would not surprise me if it pulled over 200ks if there were a race track around her.

Focusing on the vehicle is not the answer. They need to change the mindset from a young age, particularly with young males, so that your a deadset di*khead if you use the car as an extension of your pee pee. Education of the mind combined with behaviour modification through the pocket.

The sad thing is the media, through the cops of course, focus on the lunatic p plater that kills his mates head on into a gum tree at high speed but dont bother with the middle aged lady that is driving with her head up her butt and goes through a red and kills herself and a couple of others. Thats just an accident.......

Its bs.

[Case Member Find all posts View Profile Close Case]

Sure, they are more representative in collisions statistically. But they also probably do a lot more miles than most, other than professional drivers.

Think back to your youth. If it was anything like mine the second i got my licence and car I was forever out. At all hours of the day and night. We used to drive from coffs harbour down to sydney, go to a concert and straight back home. Once I left home and lived in canberra I would drive back up to coffs on a friday night and home again on the sunday.

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would have to agree, i have done 40 000km in my Prado science i bought it 6 months ago
(and i drive my partners car a bit also)
I'm 18year old male and on my p's
i live at the end of a 20km pice of dirt road that is often muddy and have seen multiple people slide off, and also live at the top of a mountain range (that is more or less cut into a cliff) and have seen people go off the side
i would say i am a rather cautious driver.
(i get my kicks on 4 weelers in the bush)
i have, on 2 occasions taken a phone off the driver while they where trying to text (while driving)
i got up my partner and made him pull over and i took over driving after he gave my Prado a boot full in town cause people where watching.
bit of a spoil sport but as i have said "i forked out to much for that car for it to be written off"

Case

[AJ120 Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close AJ120]

Age doesn't seem to be the only factor in high speed stupidity, last night in Adelaide a 60yo bloke had his Ferrari impounded after being booked for doing 103 in a 50 Zone.

Cheers Andrew

[Madkore Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Madkore]

Sure, limiting access to 'high powered' vehicles for P platers is not the be all and end all of all car accidents on the road, but surely it would help, if only a little bit?