Possible curfew for 17-24 year old drivers

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by maviczap

A better idea would be to fit the big brother black box to monitor their driving and that would influence how much they pay for their insurance

No it wouldn't, it would be the start of an insurance driven big brother state where this was the norm.

I wouldn't have one fitted. If I had to it would go faulty very quickly.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

No it wouldn't, it would be the start of an insurance driven big brother state where this was the norm.

I wouldn't have one fitted. If I had to it would go faulty very quickly.

Me too, once we as a country accept this kind of monitoring, there would no stopping them, might as well give up and just use public transport.

Totally agree with YC..

[Littlepeahead]

At 18 I worked as a delivery driver doing overnight shifts when needed to deliver the newspapers to shops all over Essex from 2am in a Luton van. A law like this would have lost me my job. I also roadied for mates bands. Again that would have been impossible. Teenagers are not all bad drivers. What about the old dears with poor eyesight especially at night driving their mates home from bingo in their grannymobiles?

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

No it wouldn't, it would be the start of an insurance driven big brother state where this was the norm.

I wouldn't have one fitted. If I had to it would go faulty very quickly.

Then your premium would rocket until it got fixed, as it transmits the data to the insurance company.

Originally Posted by specialone

Me too, once we as a country accept this kind of monitoring, there would no stopping them, might as well give up and just use public transport.

Originally Posted by Wildkid

Totally agree with YC..

Well would you rather have a curfew for drivers in that age bracket, preventing them from getting to and from their place of work

No buses or trains late at night, who can afford a taxi these days.

Might push up sales of scooters mind

There was a bit about it on our local news, where a young guy had one fitted on his car. OK I agree its very big brother, but he was happy because it reduced his premium to affordable levels.

I can see this happening whether you like it or not

This happened at the weekend, to a 22 year old

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-in-house.html

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by maviczap

Then your premium would rocket until it got fixed, as it transmits the data to the insurance company.


Well would you rather have a curfew for drivers in that age bracket, preventing them from getting to and from their place of work

No I'd rather people had freedom of movement as is morally correct!

The problem wazzocks, like that tit in the audi, would be completely unaffected by this. It's unenforceable.
If he was 21 and driving a sports car like an idiot what sort of person do you think he is?


If they sorted out the rip-off b*stard claims handling cartel and maybe got some police on the roads to enforce the laws already in place none of this would be needed.

[maviczap]

Yes, agreed, like we all did when we were learning

Trouble is too many wazzocks bumping up our premiums and the Daily Mail readers tutting at it all

There is a reform of the claims compensation going on, so maybe that'll help a bit

Even less Police about in the future, so technology will probably take over I'm afraid

Even if this were enforceable and "baz" and his mates couldn't and didn't drive after 11pm, its still not going to stop them driving like a n*bber. So they hold their rallies at 1pm in the afternoon and crash then into people going to the supermarket instead of just their n*bber mates. Then because they cannot do anything saturday night, might as well go get ratted, or go shoplifting. The reason these drivers are dangerous is not because they are driving at 2am, but because they are tools, who can't drive that well, but think they can and try to drive like Lewis Hamilton.

Stupid, retarded, un-thought out* legislation. Driver training and testing should be more strenuous, and traffic penalties more severe. Make Baz's mates who are in the car culpable so they loose their licenses and get jail time too if Baz has a crash.

*un-thought out is they are actually trying to achieve the stated aim of reducing collisions, maybe very well thought out if they are trying to reduce the number of people driving altogether.

Originally Posted by specialone

I like the idea, not just while they are driving, curfew all under 25's, it would solve drunken behaviour, majority of crime, late night violence etc etc.

You wouldn't get drunken youths walking past your house at 4am singing really bad Justin barber songs.


Insurance should offer incentives for young snots not to drive between 11pm and 5am, then they wouldn't need to implement a law then.

You cant just go around banning all young people like that for what a small majority do. Thats like restricting all motorcyclists to not go out on a sunday, because some of them exceed the speed limits

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by ClunkintheUK

Stupid, retarded, un-thought out* legislation.

To be fair we're reading the BBC's rubbish on it, not actually anything they have released.