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Just wondering what everybody else thinks about the new changes.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/police...6530616329.html

Am a bit worried by it. My friend in a high powered FWD car got done for "doing a burnout" when he lost traction doing a hillstart in the wet for approx. 3 seconds. and now: "Car hoons would not only face losing their vehicles but also their liberty, with jail terms of up to nine months for repeat street racing and burnout offences."

Wonder how this is going to end...

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its harsh but i think if its used properly and not power tripped by the police then it might be a sucess...

If it makes idiots think twice before racing, drifting on the st, or being a complete moron and saves atleast one life then its been a sucess..

but yeah i dont think it will go down well if it is abused..

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Hopefully it'll end in kids learning a lesson first time around instead of continually flaunting the law, disfiguring roads, keeping working people awake @ all hours and most importantly it might stop one or two from wrapping themselves around a pole or similar.

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Am a bit worried by it. My friend in a high powered FWD car got done for "doing a burnout" when he lost traction doing a hillstart in the wet for approx. 3 seconds.

I think that this is BS mate. There is a couple of intersections near where i live and they are on a hill. I stopped at those lights a few times in the rain and its sometimes really hard to get traction taking off and moving up a hill. Specially when most people are sitting at the lights loosing oil etc reducing traction. Also the road is very worn down at the lights and gets that slick shine to it that you see when the road gets worn smooth.

A couple of times i have gone to take off normally and have broke traction and been like WTF must be slicker than i thought.

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I am starting to not really want to be out there on the roads these days. Just seems like police are out there to get people for anything no matter how minor or accidental it is.

I drive like a normal person but i am starting to feel like i am a criminal now for owning a skyline and driving it around. I am now always looking everywhere to spot police and avoid them.

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Like always, its gonna be a case of good cop, bad cop....

One cop will think that the slightest chirp on that 40 degree incline hill on that wet morning warrants 9 months in jail cause your a hoon and unaustralian

The other cop will get busted whipping up bush dirt doughnuts on youtube and get is job back 3 days later :whistling:

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This is crap, doubt it will pass..

Car owners and parents will also be punished if their car is the one used by the convicted driver. - No chance of happening.

The legislation will provide for the car to be confiscated and used in crash tests if it is involved in three offences over a period of five years. - Doubt it .. Finance wont like it.

However Im all for this..

The anti-hoon package also includes a wheel clamping program, where cars are immobilised and dumped in their yard at home.

I mean I'm pretty good on the road but seriously how many hoons drive on the rd? All the people I saw at the auto salon were so well behaved it wasnt funny, I expected it to be a summernats but not even close, casual calm driving. I think they should just ban anyone in the west from driving high powered cars.. Seems to be where the problem lies (and yeah I live in the west, I'd just move even tho It would never happen) I should clarify - high powered v8s/commonwhores/falcons etc... Cars which think they have a daily tyre frying drag car when its a stock v8 with a pod filter..

Oh and the fine for burnouts is pullshit, they can already take the car for one anyways what more do they want?

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Since when do burnouts feature high in the list of things that kill people in this country? Street racing is bad though, although personally I don't see much wrong with it up to the speed limit only. I'm open to being convinced otherwise as I haven't put that much thought into it.

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its a big wank by the Iemma government to try and look like they are doing something useful...

How bout fixing the pothole ridden roads in southwest sydney morris?

How bout them train huh, Why dont we raise the fares and make them even more unreliable.. Thatl'l keep those "hoons " off the road...

so jail the guys doing burnouts, and give a $200 fine to the punks breaking into your car taxing your stereo.

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Since when do burnouts feature high in the list of things that kill people in this country? Street racing is bad though, although personally I don't see much wrong with it up to the speed limit only[/b]. I'm open to being convinced otherwise as I haven't put that much thought into it.

I like to drive up to the speed limit as fast as i want to. But i am too affraid these days that if there just happened to be a car beside me accelerating at a similar speed, that this will be considered as "racing". I always back off now if someone tries to keep up beside me cause i dont want any one (police) to get the wrong idea.

Can the police even get u if you and another person just both happen to accelerate at the same rate UP to the speed limit then stop. Even when it just was a co - incidence that someone was beside you and doing something similar. You can't control what someone else does. If they accelerate at the same rate as u then that just coincidence.

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I like to drive up to the speed limit as fast as i want to. But i am too affraid these days that if there just happened to be a car beside me accelerating at a similar speed, that this will be considered as "racing". I always back off now if someone tries to keep up beside me cause i dont want any one (police) to get the wrong idea.

Can the police even get u if you and another person just both happen to accelerate at the same rate UP to the speed limit then stop. Even when it just was a co - incidence that someone was beside you and doing something similar. You can't control what someone else does. If they accelerate at the same rate as u then that just coincidence.

like in the ali g movie ??

:whistling:

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Well obviously you need to hit it harder to overtake them trying to race you lol.. if you arnt beside them it cant be a race can it?! Oh but supposedly hard accleration is an offence too..

The laws are a joke.. I dont understand wtf they even make this crap up.

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Yeah i hear that excesive aceleration is an offence too. What is classed as excesive acceleration. How do they regulate that. They might think that punching it in ya skyline is excesive acceleration. What bout a ferrari etc doing the same thing. They will prob bring in a law stating that you can't accelerate fast than X meters per sec/sec.

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I think i might put my Kia Rio on order right now. Gunna be needing it in the near future after they ban all cars with power greater than 100kw.

Might just go down the dark side and waste all my money ricing up my Rio instead.

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I think i might put my Kia Rio on order right now. Gunna be needing it in the near future after they ban all cars with power greater than 100kw.

Might just go down the dark side and waste all my money ricing up my Rio instead.

lol, don't forget the defect laws :whistling:

Personally, i have no interest in racing off the lights or burn outs. I don't mind a spirited drive but since starting to go to the track regularly i haven't felt the urge all that often, and even then, the car is broken from the track outing so i can't :D

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