Incoming rant... "Police have impounded more than 8,000 vehicles from dangerous drivers since anti-hoon legislation was introduced on July 1, 2006, including more than 1,500 this year. Sen Const Healy said the power to immediately remove dangerous drivers from the roads was another way to reduce road trauma. Police are removing around 50 dangerous drivers from our roads every week which can only make it safer for other drivers, he said." Where the FU CK is the evidence of that? They're spending $22.5m on the the 2009 State Budget road safety package this FY including: - installing Moving Mode Radar units in 200 police vehicles; <--hah - extending tough vehicle impoundment laws to cover extreme speeding and repeat drink and drug driving; <-- fair enough - administering a further 20,000 drug driving tests per year; <-- great - upgrade of enforcement technology; and <--$ounds good - increasing the number of hours of mobile camera operations by 3000 per month and the upgrade of 53 wet film camera intersections to digital speed and red light capacity. <-- Ye$ $afety fir$t And all that'$ going to do what $tate Government...? The average road toll over the past 5 years has been 332 and it continues to roam around that figure eeeeevery year... When are they going to try driver education? For the two years you have a learner permit (if you get it when you're 16 and get P's at 18) you legally only have to drive 0.69% of that whole time to get your licence. If you drove the legal limit of 100kph for the whole 120 hours of 'logged' driving you do as a learner, you'd of course do 12000km, over 2 years. According to insurance companies, the adverage person drives around 20,000kms a year, yet they spread a learner permit's 120 hours over 2 years thus driving just over 1/4 of the average distance the average person drives. Does this seem intelligent to you? If you look at what the licence test involves, there's no emergency braking tests, no driving through wet and slippery conditions, no emergency spin control techniques (braking again), no hazardous conditions test THERE'S NONE OF THIS sh*t! If they want to reduce the road toll they need to hold compulsory driver education programs at least once every 5 years for everyone who holds a license, and they need to do safety checks of registered vehicles to ensure that they'll do something if anything to avoid serious injury or death in a collision.