I didnt mean it from a point of view of increasing power or anything, but I see it this way. Young drivers see their cars as a way of being flash, showing off, hence the bells, whistles and chrome. This inevitably leads to showing off with their driving, incorrect use if speed and disrespect for other road users. If they all had to drive round in Reliant Robins til they were old enough to realise that a car is a killing machine then maybe the urge to be a flah twat might be disapated somewhat!
great so we just move that date from when they are pretty much pennyless to a point say at 25 to 35 when they have more money than they know what to do with...
thing is most car bling unless you are going to spend serious money on serious kit (and very likely make for an impossibly uncomfortable road car) you can't do a lot to your car which going to increase it's performance which is sold via the pages of max power... it is just usless tat largely...
it makes no difference to how they drive it.
equally you are letting your own snobbishness about what people and people who drive cars should look like overtake you. The stats on the road accidents pretty much say it's the 35 to 45 drivers who consistantly use inappropreate speed, drive under the influence of alchol, and have the majority of accident.
now I'm all for a 2 stage licence which paralles those of bikes which would mean having to take your test again for a larger engine. But my 1.1 car will do 100mph... and the 752 cc mg from 1933 i race is supercharged and will go at over 120mph and both are quite handleable at these speeds they aren't going to cause serious injury etc used in the appropreate manner.
but are stil capable of killing at inappropreate speed and neither of those would fall outside of the usual small engines are less powerful which means safer roads... Which patently isn't true.
I'd also support a supercar ban for the first year again stopping the passing the test in a micra and driving away in a porsche syndrome which some people stil beleive exists though i'd imagine it's as rare now as it ever has been...
the reality of driving is though that you don't start learning until you've passed your test and until you have sufficent experince.
again none of which is compensated for by banneding them from having silly steros or loud exhausts (all of which add weight to the car and slow it down slightly by doing so....).
and you are creating a sterotype which isn't true of all or even the majority of young drivers but are attempting to corrliate some behaviour and say this is typical which it isn't.
It's almost a class assesment you are doing because you have no issue in your statement for middle aged people leaping into their porsche cayannne or their bmw m3 etc who see their cars as a way of being flash, showing off, hence the bells, whistles and chrome.
which as you state apperently leads to showing off with their driving, incorrect use if speed and disrespect for other road users. If they all had to drive round in Reliant Robins til they were sensible enough to realise that a car is a killing machine then maybe the urge to be a flah twat might be disapated somewhat!
if you catch my drift...
what's needed is something more than tokenistic legislation and it's to do with a wider social problem than just the manner people drive. people who show or exhibit little respect or politeness in their everyday lives aren't likely to become cannonised for their decent driving....
