60 minutes tonight on young drivers.

[Hunter]

Regarding specific types of cars for P plates... all of the arguments have been made about why they may not really fix the problem, but I will say one thing - remember that woman who was an L plater and drove up on a footpath and killed a woman? She was in a little 90s Barina or something like that. DSC or ABS or whatever you want would not have prevented that death, nor presumably many like them.

The only way to prevent deaths to outlaw cars entirely - people, no matter their age or experience, will always find new and inventive ways of getting themselves into trouble and causing death and destruction. This, of course, is a dumb idea so the pragmatic thing to do is accept that:

a) people will always do stupid things and no amount of technology and/or limiting legislation (eg speed limits, passenger limits) will stop this and;

b) teenagers are fundamentally idiotic and take risks, and;

c) the government is almost powerless to stop this but can at least punish those who do stupid things.


Although, having seen a few crash scene videos complete with gore and the like, I reckon it might just change a *few* peoples minds. A guy at work visited a website full of gore and other disturbing things. He showed me one of a pileup and let's just say I did not want my lunch after that. I think some people may think twice after seeing it.