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Should young drivers have restrictions on how many passengers they can carry?
Yes, it's easy to be distracted by your mates
No, if you're easily distracted don't drive
No, everyone deserves the same rights
Surely it's not about age, but experience
About the third option, do the people that voted for this realise that for the first three years of driving, or until you're 21 you have only 6 penalty points to lose on your license not 12?
Yes, it's easy to be distracted by your mates
No, if you're easily distracted don't drive
No, everyone deserves the same rights
Surely it's not about age, but experience
About the third option, do the people that voted for this realise that for the first three years of driving, or until you're 21 you have only 6 penalty points to lose on your license not 12?
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Tbh I find this ridiculous. You're telling me my mum doesn't get distracted by people in the car? She's been driving for 20 odd years and admits herself that she's easily distracted by people in the car. Why would should I be penalised for my age when she's just as bad.
And also, if it wasnt for my mates who can drive being able to carry 4 passengers, a hell of a lot of my friends wouldnt be able to make it to college!!!
But back to what I wanted to know about "rights" (driving is a priviledge) why is it ok to restrict the number of points a young driver can get before losing their licence and not ok to say a young driver can't have more than 2 passengers. By young, I mean someone who has recently passed, not just someone who is between 18 and 21.
Sure they could. They coud get a taxi for the 20 mile run (I personally wouldn't want to be fronting that bill there and back 4 days a week). Since there's no regular enough bus service from there to here for them to make it to their lessons thats out of the question. I wouldnt fancy their chances at walking either.
Because some people don't pass until they need to. Some people need to be able to transport a family. Some people don't actually learn for the skill, they learn because they're needed to drive.
My mate has had to learn to drive because she has two seriously ill parents who can't drive due to their conditions. Someone needs to transport her family. She hates driving but she's their only choice.
I know it's different for everyone, and lots of people learn to drive for the skill of driving, but if you're saying why shouldn't they have the restriction - then why SHOULD they?
Well I'm terribly sorry but I read your post as the question being about whether new drivers should be restricted on the amount of passengers they can carry. Would you like to point me in the direction of the right one? :rolleyes:
The original question was "Should young drivers have restrictions on how many passengers they can carry?".
Then you added that "By young, I mean someone who has recently passed, not just someone who is between 18 and 21."
So the question now becomes:
"Should someone who has recently passed, not just someone who is between 18 and 21 have restrictions on how many passengers they can carry?".
Which could apply to someone who is,say, 50 and has just passed their PSV test !!!
I did ask it twice
And no, it's not supposed to be a poll, it's from the current poll on thesite front page.
Well that's easy, yes I do. Happy now?
I just can't be bothered giving an opinion when I have been critcized for doing so already. Tbh, I don't feel your OP made it clear that you only wanted to discuss penalty points, since most of it involved limiting passengers.
Never mind.
Only if they were restricted to carrying no passengers at all. Young blokes show off to others in the car, of that there is no doubt.
As for being distraction element, I don't see how that is any different if you've been driving 1 year or 10.
Also how would they enforce this law? Its all well and good saying we're going to limit how many people you can have in your car but how do they intend to stop people having more people in the car with them?
But do you really think having half the penalty points makes that much of a difference if restricted passengers won't?
And as I said above, even if people don't become less distracting, the experience gained after a few years of driving reduces the impact of distracting passengers
Probably not. I've got six point now, but I don't think about it when I'm driving.
There should, however, be a limit on the volume of the Stereo.
Agreed.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but aren't you implying that it's the passengers' fault that the driver crashes the car?
I would argue that people with young kids are just as bad though.
And there is nothing in place about being "21" unless this is something new.
Source please?
There's another issue here as well as distraction, which is that a car with 4 or 5 people in will handle differently to one with only 1 in (it affects the centre of mass).
However the solution is not to start banning things but rather to educate people about this, in the smae way that drivers are supposed to know about other factors that would require them to reduce their speed.