Something I posted on another forum, food for thought perhaps.
I have a powerful car and have had it for a year now, not one incident or damage to my car due to my driving (Except scraping my rims upon parking once and the occasional front bar scrapes on ridiculously high and shaped speed humps)
You can teach and tell people to behave all you want, this kid didn't listen to his father when he took out the car. Even if there was a power limit the car would've been taken out because that's what he wanted to do that night and that's what he did that night.
It's just people's behaviour, not laws. There will always be people out there shop lifting even though we all know its bad.
What are you going to do? Ban anyone looking suspicious from entering supermarkets? Ban all males under 25 because they have higher potential of theft?
One P-Plater dies on the road each week, there is still another few thousand out there driving without incident.
I'm pretty sure there is a more serious issue, that happens many times more that isn't getting the attention of the media or governemnt, that this topic is getting.
And on the topic of new laws and driver training.
The government says they will do correct every problem/flaw in society, but we are humans and we'll always be making mistakes. Promises and suggestions are made by Government and enthusiasts groups like us actually believe them, where in reality problems like this are so small in the whole array of problems the government has to deal with.