New police plane can detect speeding, issue fines (NSW)

[Manaz]

The only problem is the other end of the spectrum who think they are now capable WRC/WTCC drivers becasue of their few hours of driver training and put themselves into a high density stationary object (pole/tree etc).

Unfortunately as usual, the few spoil it for the many.

I'm not talking advanced driver training, but just some defensive driver training.

I did two courses when I was younger - a defensive driving course with the police at Amaroo Park Raceway (showing my age now!), and then a BMW Defensive Driving course.

There's no way you could come away from either of them thinking you're now an uber driver - they really open your eyes to the things that can go wrong, and more than teaching you how to deal with them when they happen, they teach you how to avoid them in the first place by not putting yourself into dangerous situations.

The police-run course was free (local council initiative for L and P platers), the BMW course is worth a couple of hundred dollars. I reckon if the government turned around and said "we'll swap 25%/50% of your required logbook hours for participation (signed off by the organisers) of defensive driving courses, parents would pony up for it in a second, and we'd start getting vastly smarter and better drivers on the road...