TRTL; “…repeat offenders (older drivers, who may have open licences) who have displayed tendencies toward dangerous and aggressive driving should also be subject to such restrictions for a certain period of time.”

Agreed.

CJ; “However, I think that if you want to get Aussies to dob each other in you're pushing the proverbial uphill. It's just not going to happen.”

It’s a fundamental principle of law and liberties that everyone has the right to report others who are behaving illegally or improperly. Our legal system depends as more on this as it does on the police actually witnessing illegal activity. Indeed it is more than a right, it is a duty.

It is just downright irresponsible not to report serious dangerous driving if you witness it. And with a much easier system of reporting and some well-expressed support from the authorities, it would be irresponsible not to report less serious but obviously unsafe and illegal driving.

Anyway, it would only take a very small portion of the community to regularly do this in order to double or quadruple the effectiveness of the police on our roads…and make hoons realise that the risk of being sprung for driving in a manner that is unacceptable to the police would be very much greater than it currently is.

I have no doubt that with the right facilitation of complaints, there would be enough people willing to be involved to make the system very effective.

The most important thing is the deterrence factor.

I agree that IndyCars and V8 Supercar events are just absurd.