Should learner drivers not have high powered cars until a certain age?

Posted by: Irsa

12th Jun 2009 11:47pm

Kids should not have high powered cars untill a certain age

erogenius

1st May 2010 01:37pm

Why should they be able to drive mum and dads car?If they cant afford to buy their own, then they dont drive a car.
You can kill others just as easily in a small car, but a small car has less capability for speed and other crazy stunts so lessens the risk.
At the end of the day its not about the size of the car, although it would lessen the risk to lower the allowable engine size, but the real problem is the system that allows kids to get into cars in the first place.They are not professionally trained and the license is too easily obtained.Any system that allows mums and dads to teach their kids their own bad habits and doesn't insist on professionally trained instruction is doomed to failure.Unfortunately the failure in this case is teenage death.

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