Getting through to the Youth

[Peter B - CV8]

Originally Posted by MWTB

The notion that young people have the 'I'm bulletproof it won't happen to me' mentality is crap, and honestly I'm sick of hearing it.

I'm 21 and I've heard it all, especially from my parents. I drive a car with 180rwkw (which I shouldn't be driving as a P plater) but guess how many speeding tickets I've ever had? 0. Guess how many red light infringements I've had? 0. Guess how many times I've been picked up for drag racing? 0. Guess how many times I've been done for drink driving! Does it surprise you that that number is also 0?

Yes, young people are typically idiots with things but its not because we have the 'won't happen to me' bulletproof attitude, it's because the possibility just doesn't come into our head because we don't think about it; and I use 'we' very loosely (I choose not to compare myself to the cretins that are posting about how hard done by they are for losing their license for being 40km/h over).

The answer, in my opinion, is simple. Power to weight ratios like days of old, 125kw per tonne. No forced induction except for diesel cars. It seems ridiculous that I can drive my stock XR6 with 190 at the flywheel but I can't drive a VS HSV with 185 and much heavier.

I am sorry for your loss, and I am sorry to say that its going to keep happening because people my age just don't think about what could happen.

So please, for the sake of my sanity, don't post back telling me that I'm wrong and P platers do think they are invincible because we don't. We're stupid, but we're not THAT stupid. Most P platers just tend to take risks without assessing the consequence properly.

And yet your user name (Town Drunk) & avatar picture (drinking in a car??) give people a totally different perception of "the real you".....