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New car modification laws...sorry for off topic. 23-Jul-2009 At 8:11:20 AM Sonic

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Most of the road rules up here are stupid. I prefer driving in Victoria.

They just bought in rules that any P1/P2 driver caught speeding, be it 1 or 100 km/h over will get a minimum 4 demerit points. This means a P1 driver loses their licence automatically for one offence as they only have 4 points. The thing is, there was already a mandatory 3 month suspension for any speeding offence for a P1 driver on top of any demerit suspesion (I know this coz I spent 9 months of last year with no licence for that reason!). That means a P1 driver caught doing, lets say, 3 km/h over loses their licence for 6 months. At that stage, I can see that doing more harm than good as the driver is losing valuable experience at a stage of their driving career and then they are less confident when they get it back. Surely driver rehabilitation is a much more appropriate solution if the authorities are serious about road safety.

The RTA is bureaucracy gone mad.

And I own a lowered car. I bought it that way. It will cost me $1680 to get it lifted back up. I wonder if the govt will pay that coz I'm not!