Vic is the Nanny State!!!!!!!

[GOLFBALLS]

Changing peoples rubbish attitudes and behaviour is an eternally difficult thing. They've gotta keep trying don't they!?

....But I've still seen no REAL attempt at better driver training and skill development by the govt.

Common sense is the underlying and most important common denominator here, how do you teach people common sense???

FIIK!

[AusScare]

Trying to discourage people from doing something that is illegal and more importantly VERY UNSAFE is a GOOD thing....

I agree here, picking people for defects and stuff, cars with effed suspension and stupidly loud exhausts.

Those ads were really terrible though, I wonder how long they'll last.

[Jarred]

......But I've still seen no REAL attempt at better driver training and skill development by the govt.
..

Here here! That's what's needed. P platers are babied around whilst on thier learners by the instructor or thier parents, then they get thier license, and wonders how faster they can go, without knowing the limits of thier car or themselves!

The nordic countries have it down pat. Learners there HAVE to pass a course which involves PROPER defensive driving and doing hand brake turns etc. mainly handling the car when it's out of control (a big factor is cause of the snow and ice on thier road, but the principle applies here still!)

[GoLfMan]

I've said it once, I've said it a million times.

Driver training is what the authorities need to reduce road tolls. How hard is that to see?!

[gareth_oau]

driver training will merely turn us all into addicted 300kph speed freaks, causing death and destruction.

speed cameras replace taxes

[gareth_oau]

my son's girlfriend recently passed her lisence. and the whole education and test process, not once did she use the ABS.

what sort of training is that?

One day she will slam on her brakes, and theres a 50/50 chance she will remove her foot from the pedal because of the funny feeling she got

[Buller_Scott]

unfortunately it'll probably be something like *quick release of the pedal* "oh no something's wrong with the brakes!".

call me cynical/ bitter or whatever, but the whole "dont be a ****head" thing having to be launched as a viral campaign on the net due to ''inappropriate language'' for prime time tv? its a compromise, but a pretty piss poor one.

the roads would be much safer, of course, if it were harder to get your license in the first place, and/or if there were mandatory driving tests for each license holder every 3-5 years or so. as unfeasible as that may seem, it might just help address the root cause instead of simply "well, let people off themselves through negligence and driver miseducation, and if we can make some money into the bargain [speeding tickets, all victorian cops care about-that and canaries on chapel st. on a saturday night] then all the better!''.

it's whack. and not likely to change much.

p.s. gareth, it's getting cooooolderrrrr. any predictions on this season?