Special Licence for Supercars....
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Drago
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That's Oz, where cyclists rank several tiers down from the perverts in the eyes of society. What happens there rarely reflects reality.
Some years back the government here tasked the TRRL with proving a link between vehicle performance and the accident rate, no doubt with a view to some kind of legislation. The TRRL completed their research and concluded there was no link.
More pertinently we should see speed limiters. Accy's Metro City 1.0 doing 85 down the 30 zone in the high street is just as dangerous as a Ferrari doing the same.
Some years back the government here tasked the TRRL with proving a link between vehicle performance and the accident rate, no doubt with a view to some kind of legislation. The TRRL completed their research and concluded there was no link.
More pertinently we should see speed limiters. Accy's Metro City 1.0 doing 85 down the 30 zone in the high street is just as dangerous as a Ferrari doing the same.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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My little 1.4 GTa metro was like a rocket, no turbo needed.
a.twiddler
Veteran
There are already several categories of licence with age restrictions for motorcycles depending on power output. Since cars have a far greater potential for risk to other road users, particularly as they get bigger and heavier, let alone if they have a high power/weight ratio, it shouldn't be so surprising that it's a consideration. I can just imagine the outcry if you couldn't apply for a licence for a top of the range sports car until you were 24, as is the case for some comparable motorcycles.
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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
Most EV's have supercar power now...
BigSid
Guru
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- Hungerford
The Aussie special licence is virtue signalling. The system is an online course with a multiple guess assessment, there is no practical component. Anyhow, despite huge amounts of horsepower most super/hypercar owners seem to do nine along Knightsbridge not a ton through town.
Drago
Legendary Member
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Again, despite the governments own commissioned research showing safety had no link to performance, and no corresponding decrease in casualties has been attributable to 'new' licence system.
dicko
Guru
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- Derbyshire
My neighbour across the road from me has a Porsche 911 turbo which he has spent an absolute fortune on. He takes it for a ride at the weekend for about 30 minutes then returns and polishes it. The Porsche is then locked away in the garage for another week, and so it goes on.
But we do it quietly, so as not to attract attention.
Nothing more obvious than a loud booming exhaust
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
But we do it quietly, so as not to attract attention.
Nothing more obvious than a loud booming exhaust
Give me a V8 over a washing machine !
classic33
Leg End Member
At least with an exhaust on a high powered vehicle you'll know there's an idiot behind the wheel.But we do it quietly, so as not to attract attention.
Nothing more obvious than a loud booming exhaust
I've got a huge V8 too 6.2litre
How is a having an exhaust correlate to being an idiot?
classic33
Leg End Member
It was "an exhaust on a high powered vehicle" that would allow you to know there was an idiot behind the wheel.
High powered electric vehicles take that advance warning away.
