On May 22, 2010, at 6:00 AM, Russell McMahon wrote:

> Separating out the guys with the enhanced brakes and shocks from the  
> urban drifters gets a bit hard.

Indeed.  My main reaction is that the percentage of idiots and  
incompetents with modified cars is no larger than the percentage of  
idiots and incompetents with non-modified cars.  It's like trying to  
pile extra charges on the guy who robbed the store with a sawed-off  
12G shotgun vs the guy who robbed the store with the 20g sawed-off  
shotgun because the 12g is "more dangerous."
We already have the notion of "street legal" cars vs not (at least in  
the US.  I dunno about "down under" whence comes "Mad Max" and Co.)   
The dangerous people with the illegal mods are hardly going to be the  
ones ready to paste extra stickers on their cars.  (or perhaps not.   
"Gang Colors" for cars - the mind boggles...)

In the US (king of car-related deaths, I think), there are very few  
accidents that end up attributed to car modifications, or even to  
(illegal) actual street racing.  Far, far, more are alcohol-related.

BillW

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