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Hi guys,
Working on my architectural thesis at the moment and my issue is on car culture vs the general public perception.
What I am trying to achieve is to define a space that helps to address this issue and would really appreciate your help!
This thesis will eventually be proposed to the community and the law enforcement so please be honest but be opinionative.

Also voice your opinion in this thread, anything to do with the car community and the general public. Feel free to post it here!

Without going into too much detail, I would like your thought on the following scenarios:

1. You're cruising on a Saturday night with your not so legal vehicle. In front is a booze bus and you get pulled in. But instead of giving you a breath test, you are directed to a nearby multi level car park. Once you're in, you realise there are many "car enthusiasts" been detained. An officer announces that the community would like your help to establish a car gathering event within this car park every week not much different to what you see in the Fast and Furious movies. Activities such as pop up fast food joints, music, hooning are encouraged with no legal consequences.

2. You're driving your not so legal vehicle and gets pulled over by a highway patrol. The officer comes over and takes your details. He mentions your car is not legal and you can get a major EPA. He lets you go without any warning but before he leaves, he asks you to participate in an experiment. He invites you to a DIY workshop garage where car enthusiasts are to help service/fix/diagnose problems for people's cars. He also explains it is a good opportunity to bring your car and to educate the general public about the car community.

3. A highway that is notorious for it's hooning activity is suddenly devoid of police presence.

4. SAU have been asked by the force to help track hoons and report them.

That's it for now. Depending how successful this is post is, it will be an ongoing thing and I might come back and ask more questions. If you think this has potential to be explored further, please pass this along to other forums. As I mentioned before this thesis will eventually be used to address the public.

Thanks for the help!

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There would be absolutely minimal published research that actually relates to your research question,

So unless you went out and conducted primary data collection, which would require ethics approval, it would be fairly not doable.

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