Possible solution to hoon drivers.

[Poorboy_racer]

Ok been talking with my wife and think we have a solution to the rising road toll crushing hoons cars etc situation.
From the bulk of articles we have read. Most car accidents seem to be driver error. Far more than any other factor. Therefore to reduce incidents, drivers need better reactions/ driving skills. What about as the second phase of your test you take a trip to the drags and have to pull a sub 1 second light before you can take off your Ps? Then you could get rid of them sooner and anyone with Ps really would need to be watched by other road users. As everyone would know they have rubbish reactions. Then my wife says driver skill involves going round corners. Ok then, open up the race tracks Philp Island, Eastern Creek, Winton etc etc for a few laps. Then she says but cars come the other way on the road. So to get off your Ps you must do 10 laps of your local track in a given time with half of you going one way and the other half going the opposite direction. If you can do that for 10 laps without a prang then you really deserve to be off you Ps.

In all honesty did an advanced motoring test in the UK on my bike and it was 10X harder to pass than the Department of Transport test. Don’t know if you can take an advance motor test in Aus but if you did (believe me they are really hard to pass) then you should be able to cut the time on Ps as an incentive. Also anything like skid pan time etc should take time off you Ps in my opinion anyway. As for hoons, taking your car or bike onto a proper race track under controlled conditions really slows you up on the road as it no longer gives you the same kick. Everyone I know who races is ‘Mr Goody two shoes’ on the road. I made a suggestion to the paper once for the Police to spend some of the huge road revenue they make, by sponsoring some meetings at the drags and race tracks etc. They could really press the point about safe driving etc and be good for Police relations. The reaction was “Cant do that as it would teach the youngsters to drive faster”. Also as the police are known to check cars at the major car shows here in W.A. no one with a modified car would turn up.

Just encase anyone’s daft enough to think I was serious about the first bit. IT’S A JOKE