Additional Tax Contribution: Mobile Speed Cameras

[Greg Roles]

It's astounding that when you actually do one of these courses around a racetrack, you realize just how lax some of your skills become over time, and the vast majority of people out there never go near one. Should be part of your five year license renewal. Will be my requirement for my two boys in getting any help from me buying a car when they hit that age.....they are going to speed like we all did at 17, so they may as well know how to handle the bloody thing.

[Buller_Scott]

its truly unbelievable what some of these 'experts' say.

I don't actually know why Australia just can't look at somewhere where the road laws are more effective and just learn off them.

I can't EVER see why defensive driver training would be dangerous, thats truly ludicrous.

gotta love what the kind of "experts" that go on ACA and the 6pm project have to say...

as for learning off other people, you'd THINK that it would be a good idea, but (and it sucks to admit) australia and its leaders are backward backwater rednecks in their thinking:

- "hey, why dont we do it the way they are doing it over there? their driver awareness/education systems are better, and as such, they not only travel faster but there are less accidents"
- "they travel faster? no... that's going to be too dangerous. what we are planning is, with cars on the road now having 11 airbags and a plethora of safety acronyms, we're planning to lower speed limits further still - oh yes, people will still be allowed to tailgait and not use their indicators, but it will be safer and much more lucrative at the same time".

c7nts.

It's astounding that when you actually do one of these courses around a racetrack, you realize just how lax some of your skills become over time, and the vast majority of people out there never go near one. Should be part of your five year license renewal. Will be my requirement for my two boys in getting any help from me buying a car when they hit that age.....they are going to speed like we all did at 17, so they may as well know how to handle the bloody thing.

amen to that - tyre screeching is one thing, but for kids on their p's it could often end up in tears (wasnt too long ago that a p plater, class of 2011, smashed is integra type r up around yarra bend - i drove past 5 mins after it happened). teaching kids that there are limits to grip, cornering speed, understeer, braking distances etc, rather than "hey if i pull the handbrake it's gonna be the SWEEEEEETEST drift anyone has ever seen" - well, it might help offset the number of other utterly crap drivers on the roads that the australian government is happy to endanger other motorists, so long as they get cash money for people doing 3km/h over the speed limit...