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Should the government put a stop to the young drivers owning a power full car? ( Too many to list) should they be limited to the smallest CC? & the system sealed as not to increase the power.
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For my next birthday I'm getting one of these but to be honest it scares the life out me because they go so slow and I think they are just going to infuriate other drivers who will then overtake me unsafely. Theyre great in a city centre but in the country I think it might just be a death trap:(
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You have to be 21 before you can ride a bike over 46.6 bhp. Can't see why the law can't be written so you have to be 21 or 25 and have held a licence for, say, three years, possibly without endorsement, before you can drive a powerful car. Insurance companies help by refusing or charging a lot to insure a young driver in a powerful car, but, even so, given the money, any rich kid can get themselves insured with someone.
I disagree with the law that allows 17 year olds to drive. At 16, a child can have sex and therefore legally have a child, and also get married with parental consent. At 16 a child can live by them themselves, work, contribute to the economy, make conscience decisions but not allowed to vote or drink alcohol or nowadays smoke a cigarette. By 17 they are out and about learning to drive. At 18 they are finally adults, passed their driving test and can legally go into a nightclub and roll out pi$$ed as a fart.
The law somewhere is wrong. In MY opinion, either start teaching kids to drive at the age of 14, before the majority hit the excitement of drinking and other distractions, or up the driving age limit to 19 or 20. Would YOU put your life in the hands of a 17 year old? I wouldn't, but thats what we do by allowing these kids out on the road.
The law somewhere is wrong. In MY opinion, either start teaching kids to drive at the age of 14, before the majority hit the excitement of drinking and other distractions, or up the driving age limit to 19 or 20. Would YOU put your life in the hands of a 17 year old? I wouldn't, but thats what we do by allowing these kids out on the road.
"If young people wants to live fast and die young, it's their choice. "
Quite so. The unfortunate thing is that very often by living fast it is not they who die young. It is sometimes some other poor sod coming the other way, minding his own business sticking to the speed limit on the correct side of the road who is wiped out by some maniac in a high powered car bought and insured for him (or her) by Mummy and Daddy for their seventeenth birthday.
A modification to the "New Drivers'" rules may help. At present drivers who accumulate six or more penalty points within two years of the date they passed their first driving test have their licence revoked and they revert to provisional status. There are a number of shortcomings to these rules:
1. They are not disqualified from driving and can continue to drive as a provisional licence holder. (I notice some articles in the press refer to these rules as providing for “disqualification” of the new drivers. They do not.)
2. The rules only apply to those who commit offences which result in the imposition of penalty points. They do not apply to those who are convicted of more serious driving offences which result in disqualification.
3. They can only have their licence revoked once under these rules. Once they have reverted to provisional licence holder once the New Drivers‘ rules no longer apply.
My proposed modifications would be:
1. I would extend the rules to last for five years after the test is passed.
2. The revocation of their licence should be accompanied by an automatic and immediate six month disqualification in the same way that the usual twelve point “totting up” rules do but there would be no provision to plead “exceptional hardship” to avoid a ban as there is with the usual totting up rules.
3. Any offence which result in disqualification would lead to immediate revocation and reversion to provisional status.
4. A second (or subsequent) revocation would be available and the threat of revocation would only be lifted when the driver has completed a five year period without incurring a disqualification or six points. (Some provision may have to be made for drivers who take a test later in life on a different class of vehicle).
It would not solve the problem entirely but it may help concentrate the minds of some new drivers.
Quite so. The unfortunate thing is that very often by living fast it is not they who die young. It is sometimes some other poor sod coming the other way, minding his own business sticking to the speed limit on the correct side of the road who is wiped out by some maniac in a high powered car bought and insured for him (or her) by Mummy and Daddy for their seventeenth birthday.
A modification to the "New Drivers'" rules may help. At present drivers who accumulate six or more penalty points within two years of the date they passed their first driving test have their licence revoked and they revert to provisional status. There are a number of shortcomings to these rules:
1. They are not disqualified from driving and can continue to drive as a provisional licence holder. (I notice some articles in the press refer to these rules as providing for “disqualification” of the new drivers. They do not.)
2. The rules only apply to those who commit offences which result in the imposition of penalty points. They do not apply to those who are convicted of more serious driving offences which result in disqualification.
3. They can only have their licence revoked once under these rules. Once they have reverted to provisional licence holder once the New Drivers‘ rules no longer apply.
My proposed modifications would be:
1. I would extend the rules to last for five years after the test is passed.
2. The revocation of their licence should be accompanied by an automatic and immediate six month disqualification in the same way that the usual twelve point “totting up” rules do but there would be no provision to plead “exceptional hardship” to avoid a ban as there is with the usual totting up rules.
3. Any offence which result in disqualification would lead to immediate revocation and reversion to provisional status.
4. A second (or subsequent) revocation would be available and the threat of revocation would only be lifted when the driver has completed a five year period without incurring a disqualification or six points. (Some provision may have to be made for drivers who take a test later in life on a different class of vehicle).
It would not solve the problem entirely but it may help concentrate the minds of some new drivers.
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