thats juust my opinion atleast

restricting a driver to a car with a smaller displacement or no performance mods is another stupid idea.

anyone could wrap their mums excel around a pole, it just means they have to push it harder than a v8 or a turbo 4.

Learning how to control a car and learning about the consequences of speedind, racing and burnout is the main key in kurbing this behaviour.

i’m 18, and i like to drive quick. Fortunately i have a drag strip and track not too far from home, however why isnt there money thrown into creating a designated drag strip for people to have fun?

Just another revenue raising plan by the government

I know it won’t entirely solve the ‘hoon’ issue, but it’d give kids a better understanding of what a vehicle is and isn’t capable of and allow driver development in a monitored environment.

Most parents can’t drive, so what hope have kids got in learning from them. Private lessons are too expensive for most families, and unchecked a probationary driver just develops bad habits.

I think Driver’s Ed is an idea that is being discounted far too quickly.

But i bet he/she gets pissed off having to enforce these laws and also catching someone red handed for murder, go through all the paper work and hear that some slimy lawyer got them off due to “society failing them” and other nonsense.

They are not looking at all the factors of this problem. what about the insurance companies, finance companies, mummy and daddy that put their kids cars under their insurance policy so they can either own or pay cheaper rates or even worse just whip out the wallet and pay the fines for them?

and yes i know not all hoons drive import turbos or v8s there are alot that do it in clapped out camrys corollas hyundai excells EA’s etc but i think punish repeat offenders but as time has proven tickets or losing a peice of plastic with their photo on isnt gonna deter them that much

On paper the laws look good (in the governments eyes) and when looking at them on paper I say to myself “shit better be careful”….which is what most people will say. How many people are going to say “shit better not race, speed, race other cars anymore”

I don’t think the government will support the idea of a race track. Why would they put their name to a race track that a bunch of kids are going to kill themselves on? They all think they are Michael Schumacher.

12 months jail for 1 measly burnout, what quantifies a burnout??? If its blatant hoon type stuff then maybe a night in the slammer but 12 months. You get less than that for drunk driving. J O A K joke

Come on! I understand if it were illigal well planed out drag and burnout competitions on the street and they keep doing it after they have already been in troble for it, but taking off too hard and you’re faced with all that has gone too far.

These laws are ridiculous and the penalties are completely out of whack with the offences. The state government should wake up to itself and spend more resources putting facilities in place to promote such activities in a controlled environment.

Seems the goverment thinks speeding, running redlights and drink driving are less serious offences. A quick check of the RTA website reveals that doing more than 45km/h over the speed limit in a school zone attracts a smaller penalty than the proposed new hoon laws. Make any sense in that?