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My computer fcucked up and crashed. Only just got it back online.

What i was going to say waaaaas:

This has been sh!tting me up the wall for a while:

Licensing of drivers. In Australia for some reason a license is regarded as a right, NOT the privalege it is. The test is too easy and we've got too many people out on the roads who don't have a bloody clue about driving. What's scarier is that in many cases they don't keep their cars safely maintained (legal tread on tyres, etc) and then call us/you/me dangerous because we've got performance cars. Sure there are a few performance car owners who don't know wrong from right, but they're a minority.

People who drive on the main freeway from Sydney-Newcastle (f3) won't keep left unless overtaking (there's enough bloody signs to remind them!). They just blindly travel at 100 or less in the right lane. WTF??? Most of these the sphincter of the universes also pull out, cutting you off, and then trundle along at 100 or less in a 110km/h zone. WTF#2???

Parking lot dents. I'm sick of it. I don't know why i bother keeping a car looking nice if people don't watch their doors/parking and crash into it. I've spend over 2k fixing dents up in the last year. What's with people in Sydney and the Central Coast?

Speed limits. THESE ARE RHETORICAL QUESTIONS This is a can of worms that inspires passionate and biased replys so all im gunna say is:

I totally dig 40km/h school zones BUT what's with all the other fixed speed cameras in safe, multi-lane roads or at the bottom of hills? And why doesn't all this money go to fixing our abysmal roads?

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I had my Mazda for 2 hours after i picked it up, brand new!!, from the dealer.

Parked it at Tuggerah shops for 15mins. Came out and someone had thrown front and rear doors open into my new car, causing dents in my front door and the leading edge of my rear door... GRRRRRR

Rezz Grand Master

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I bet the dude who did that said to himself "Ya shoodn`t `ave paaaaaarked so close to me ya goose..." and left without a guilt feeling at all.

...bastard...:)

WazR32GTSt Grand Master

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farken idiots!

i recently parked at uni where i was sideswiped by some idiot trying to park in the spot next to me! lucky the scratches were very superficial and you can hardly see them after 1 hour of cut-and-polish and buffing...

one day i will catch the person in the act and they'll regret it!

predator Grand Master

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hahaha a cop told me having a license was a privilege not a right?

Unfortunately its pretty much a right, because who can't get a license?? The only time it stops becoming a right is when it makes the government more money to take it off you, or the potential to cost them money is greater.

I'm all for 5 yearly resit of licenses. Would solve so many problems. Hell after about 5 years you've fogotten half the road rules anyway..

In ten years all i'll probably be able to remember, is "red stop", "green go", and "follow the speed limit to the letter".. actually **** it il'll just get autopilot to drive my car and snooze off to sleep. May as well

Roy Grand Master

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Man, go drive OS and you will soon see whilst we are not perfect we are a mile a head of some of the opposition. That said i have only driven in Indonesia (that was fun... but if i had a wife and kids it would have been scary!) and in France and England. So dont have a lot of experience.

I was reading something the other day that got me thinking. I cant remember the percentage but it was low, like less then 5% of accidents can be attributed to an unroadworthy car, ie bald tyres etc. So whats with the whole defecting / road safety thing.

And AUSTRALIA is the BEST country in the world my friend!

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I cant remember the percentage but it was low, like less then 5% of accidents can be attributed to an unroadworthy car, ie bald tyres etc.

That was an independent report tabled before VIC parliament i believe a couple of years back. Of course, that doesn't stop them defecting every man and their dog. And I still don't understand how a car being "too low" causes any form of safety hazard other than to your own car.

Then again, with appropriate independent research i am sure "speed" would also not be a major cause in most accidents either.

Its all what they want people to believe, and what they need to push their own agenda.

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U think its bad over there? in WA we dont have keep left signs at all.

This week ive been driving the old mans jeep and it has a set of big ass spotlights on the roof. Needless to say , i have become the scourge of the right line hog. Oh and the horn is pretty loud too :)

Im all for making driver lic harder to get though. Cars should be like bikes, if u want a powerful car u have to earn it. Too many kids with 'lines and or silvias that are just wating to have an accident.

Also if u cant see a speed camera u deserve to get busted, they are plain as day. If the speed camera was a kid about to run onto the road u would have nailed him good.

Australia rules m8, where else can u get free education, free medical and have the govt pay u to sit on ure ass. :)

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you thinking moving to WA ..... us WA guys are thinking of moving to SA ... no demerit points taken off for multinovas .... their cop presence seems less than WA .... they dont have friggin PolAir following their cruises around! ..... Trust me WA dont get away with murder ..... we get defects just because its an import therefore something must be illegal on it!

Oh and talking about idiots - most people have heard my story but last week a old guy ran a red light and rearranged the front of my car then reversed and drove off.

About 2 years ago someone backed into my Zed ... no note ... nothing .... got it fixed picked it up from the panel beaters .... had it back only 15 mins then someone right in front of my eyes in a shopping centre backed into again .... you do wonder how people get their licenses but unfortunately nothings going to change ... there will be forever idiots ....

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