So You Think You Have Car Control Skills, Do You?

[m3gtr]

Your car control skills are nothing compared to this...

THIS is what the RTA should be helping its drivers learn how to do..

[ish]

RTA teach Wha! little brake tricks in a car park?

After all the Commotion you made about Drifting..... that impress's you ? LOL

[m3gtr]

RTA teach Wha! little brake tricks in a car park?

After all the Commotion you made about Drifting..... that impress's you ? LOL

in the real world those skills will be much more relevant. That is car control, complete and accurate.

you seem to think you have to be going over 200 for it to mean anything and you fail to see that inherent mastery over the machine and its reactions will save lives. if you cant do that in a car park your a dead man at speed if something bad happens.

[Morgs]

I don't see how this will help our lowest common denominator on AUS roads

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sAfrican American

[m3gtr]

sAfrican American

i reckon money should be spent on driver training. thats my point.

not gonna help you say?

better still, instead of wasting all that money on saving lives i think someone should let a rottie loose on your lowest common denominator..

[Trust33]

he has car skills.but unfortunatly skills like that are bourn from years of experience.

trying to teach the lowest common denominator skills like that are like trying to teach a retarted kid how to ride a bike.it takes ages.

they need basic controll skills.bourn from real world senarios.

which the man allready has in place.but unfortunatly those driver training programs are hardly all government funded.they are actually paid for by companies so that their employees are educated in driver controll and saftey,paid for out of our back pockets etc, and it is meant to lessen the likelyhood of an accident happening in a company vehicle.allong with all the other benifits that come with that sort of driver training.

[SECURITY]

its not like he has the most difficult car to drive. his skills come from his experience with THAT car. put him in another car and it will be a completely different scenario.

the fact of the matter is those things handle like go karts. its pretty much point and shoot. they weigh around 700kg max and their centre of mass is so much lower to the ground.

like trust33 said. its all about experience. unless you make the minimum age to get a licence to be 25 and be compulsary to have 7yrs experience on a go-kart, then most aus drivers will never have the same skills as that guy.

[Kozeyekan]

Longer learner periods.

Drop learner age to 15, make it part of the school curriculum, and have it as compulsory 3 years on L's, or even better, gradient L plates.

Also, I think re-testing is a good idea. Too easy to pass and forget everything.

I'm all for increased driver expertise. If there's one thing every man and woman has in common on this Earth, it's that we ALL truly believe that we are better than average drivers.

[thorpe84]

are you forgetting that the car weighing around 500kg's makes things a little easier?

i agree its not that impressive, i didnt even bother watching the whole video.

[ras1983]

mate, thats real driving skill. i saw a documentary about those events on discovery channel once, looks like some serious fun.

[jake33]

^^ yeah i saw the documentary on Disco too. the cars are designed purley for that. have like one or two gears and a reverse all in a tiptronic form.

Longer learner periods.

Drop learner age to 15, make it part of the school curriculum, and have it as compulsory 3 years on L's, or even better, gradient L plates.

Also, I think re-testing is a good idea. Too easy to pass and forget everything.

I'm all for increased driver expertise. If there's one thing every man and woman has in common on this Earth, it's that we ALL truly believe that we are better than average drivers.

also i think by law you should get retested at 55 or 60 years old. IMO some older people have abolutley no i idea. (old ladies doing 45 in 80 zones ect..not cool)

[foznice]

I wish I had foxtel.

It's a cool video regardless.

[Duncan]

theres a top video of a mini doing stoppies at a khana as well, was posted in here a few years back too

[GTRgeoff]

Great skills but those cars are specially built for that. twin brake pedals, only forward and reverse and really light. It would never keep up on a track. I guess I'm just not easily impressed.

That mini is a hoot Duncan.

[Duncan]

yeah couldnt find the bloody thread though

[SilverECR33]

I can see your point though M3, I believe alot of us support the idea of extra driver training, I mean its alot better Idea than the stupid RTA ideas that they come up with. I mean, all they would have to do is spend a little of their road budget on the Advanced Driving Facilities. And less moneys on stupid Advertising campains such as the latest Bungle.

Advanced Driver Training for All L plate drivers, Governmently funded or part there of. or It could be made part of the provisional driving test.

Just my 2c.

[Duncan]

Well the problem with that is surveys have shown that young drivers with advanced driver training tend to crash more and have bigger crashes.

Overconfidence from skid pan training - treating public roads like closed skidpans

[m3gtr]

id like to see where you got that "research" from...

In the wrong hands in the wrong frame of mind, affected by adverse conditions, and the rest then yes i may agree with you..

are people so adverse to restraining themselves from blowing this situation completely out of proportion?

face it. we drive performance vehicles.

Ive said it before and ill say it again and again and again and again if needs be....

QUOTE,

"High Performance vehicles do not cause the damage. Low performance drivers do."

tell that to the bumbling old lady meandering across the median strip during her 200 meter trip to the shops to buy bread that causes a multi car pile up.

[m3gtr]

the current L and P plate laws do go quite a ways so as to address this problem.

im all for a not allowing a naive, reckless and hormonally compulsive teen getting behind the wheel of a 200 plus KW machine..

perhaps thats the way..

limit KW's the way bike riders get a restriction on CC's...

Anyone care to argue?