do you think that giving the complete twats on the road a means to ID a foreign driver is a good thing most kiwi drivers can barely control their road rage if held up for a nanosecond as it is, their normal mode of behaviour is bordering on irrational bully when behind the wheel, and you think putting a blue or whatever flag on innocent drivers is not going to introduce crosshairs
and when those international drivers pull in to their place of rest for the night, their now targetted vehicle is standing out like dogs balls, for the average joe kiwi who has imaginings that he is the best dog balls puller in the country and will now avenge every perceived wrong that has been heaped upon his personal shoulders by the yellow peril
nah jazz, we have enough issues already, lets not start segregation all over again, and paint targets on the backs of the 99.99% of the international drivers that are fully competent and have done no wrong whatsoever
skin1235,
Feb 24, 6:45am
you're the first to say stop and think, don't get lead by the nose by the media
an accident by an international gets country wide headlines for days
and accident by Mary's boys gets a mention on page 5 and is never heard about again
franc123,
Feb 24, 7:01am
Rental car co's aren't going to dick about swapping number plates at the beginning and end of hires, and won't want to go to the expense and hassle of the rest of it either when they only have vehicles in the fleet for 12-18mths at the outside. How competent or not foreign drivers are isn't of any real concern to them, they MIGHT perhaps be more keen on fitting a warning diamond slot on the back of their vehicles like dangerous good carrying commercial vehicles do, so a sign can be inserted that states I'm an incompetent Foreign Twat driver that's been assumed to be an above average accident risk compared to an incompetent Kiwi Twat driver. Lets make them in white, yellow, black or brown colour coded plastic too shall we?
intrade,
Feb 24, 7:03am
thats correct if you think of it only in the holliday period they show on tv whom crashed and killed him self all the others are not even mentioned ever . if you think of it its like grooming you to think what the media wants you to.
socram,
Feb 24, 7:04am
I'd be far more concerned at the 95% of accidents caused by Kiwi drivers.
Maybe Kiwis renting cars abroad need to carry large stickers, warning the locals that they come from a country with so many poor driving habits?
Great idea though that the low lifes can hone straight in on overseas visitors' cars in car parks and rob them, instead of wasting time ferreting through locals', where there won't be wads of cash, passports and laptops.
daryl14,
Feb 24, 7:13am
We already make learner drivers fit a black and yellow L shaped crosshairs on their cars/bikes, so why not tourists?
bumfacingdown,
Feb 24, 7:15am
Imagine the out cry if this was suggested " Fit all cars with a GPS tracker that the Police can access"
skin1235,
Feb 24, 7:20am
and once fitted, the police can have a window into every private life in NZ, wonder if they would also want remote access to immobilisers, on every car on the road, or is this just for the unfortunates that hire a rental, should kiwi hirers be exempt Next you'll be wanting steering controls fitted, a whole bunch of cops remote driving every car on the road, bit like slot cars with all the controls hooked up in some offshore call center
bumfacingdown,
Feb 24, 7:24am
You got a worserer imagination than mine
skin1235,
Feb 24, 7:26am
having fitted such crosshairs, how many of those L plate drivers are involved in accidents no really, how many? did the L plate cause any accident, did it cause any accident to be avoided
if you mentally change your driving attitude when behind a L plate then perhaps you should adopt that new attitude for all your driving
skin1235,
Feb 24, 7:26am
lol, so the 4 sticks of gelly under the drivers seat isn't a good idea
socram,
Feb 24, 7:30am
Because the L plates mean that you give them plenty of room and expect them to be slow. You are expected to be tolerant of their errors. They are not a target.
Mind you, thinking about it, why not just label all immigrants and tourists with L plates until they have taken out NZ Citizenship - though that wouldn't really work either.
Nah, just ping all bad drivers and once pinged, make them carry "P" plates instead - or serial drunks - a "D" Plate, serial speeders an "S" plate, serial crashers a "C" plate, overly slow imbecile drivers who have been pinged for holding up traffic, an "I" plate, youngsters a "K" plate, old farts an "O" plate.
daryl14,
Feb 24, 7:32am
What do you think is the typical kiwi drivers reaction to coming up behind a car with an L plate on it then?
skin1235,
Feb 24, 7:37am
typical kiwi driver?
that would be the monobrow, kill, kill, crush and maim, gettafekouttamyway kiwi driver
yeah, he will naturally back off in tolerance of the poor chump made to wear the badge of incompetence pffft
daryl14,
Feb 24, 7:39am
I actually like this idea the best. But there should also be a computer aided gps on board the car that tells tourists to speed up if they are going too slow and don't stop in the middle of the desert road to take photos and other helpful stuff like that.
daryl14,
Feb 24, 7:42am
And that was exactly the point I was trying to make, The L plate is nothing more than a crosshairs for road rage anyway, Its only fair that all overseas drivers be issued with one. Cheers.
skin1235,
Feb 24, 7:46am
the NZ rode code does a pretty good job of that, should be compulsory reading for all drivers, and like once upon a time when licenses to drive were renewed annually, all licensed drivers should have to take 5 minutes to do the scratch test sheet before renewal annually, all import drivers to do the same to get a license to drive on our roads if you're going to try to fix the problems don't target 0.2% of the drivers, ( and make them victims of typical redneck apartheid, aim a bit higher
bumfacingdown,
Feb 24, 7:46am
Only if its a soft top would it work
skin1235,
Feb 24, 7:47am
so adding a few more random targets ( rentals by foreign drivers) may reduce the road rage? edit the worry is you recognise and accept the monobrow, kill, kill, crush and maim type is the typical kiwi driver
daryl14,
Feb 24, 7:48am
I agree, it's totally wrong that they can walk off a plane and get into a rental car after flashing their international licence or licence of their home country.
socram,
Feb 24, 7:50am
Can anyone please explain why that is? We all had to start sometime. It would help though if the L plates weren't stuck behind tinted windows so that they can't be seen at night. it would also help if they were removed when the driver isn't in fact a learner.
As a 16 year old, when my weekly wage was the equivalent of just $9 a week, the fine for displaying 'L' plates when the driver was in fact licenced, was $4.
skin1235,
Feb 24, 7:56am
start to explain?, first you need to understand words like intolerant buffoons, redneck twats, mental incompetence while behind the wheel, sad little ignoramous's living their big moment of power, inability to see the reflection in the mirror for what it really is or words like typical kiwi driver
socram,
Feb 24, 8:03am
You can flash your 'issued with a Weetbix packet' Kiwi licence and rent a car abroad. Is that also totally wrong?
Be very careful for what you wish for, as you wouldn't want it to backfire. It wouldn't worry me too much travelling to the UK and Europe as I have both Kiwi and UK driving licences for motorbikes and cars, but I could see major problems for Kiwis heading for Europe if someone decided they needed to take any form of test before they could drive.
I do agree that a copy of the Road Code in any country should be mandatory with any rental car. What does the 'open road speed sign' mean (white with a black bar) in the UK, as opposed to here, or the Isle of Man or Germany for example?
skin1235,
Feb 24, 8:11am
the typical kiwi driver is hard to tag though, in the morning as he is escaping the ball and chain he drives like an impatient 8 yr old running from his mum - keep the fek out of my way cos I'm important and you're just road kill waiting to get in my way, he's sharing the road with those that have just had their 2nd for the day and is reluctantly driving away from the honeypot at 85-90 trying to prolong the aftersex buzz slightly different in the evening when in impotent rage he has to return to the ball and chain - now he's crawling along at 85-90 trying to add a few more minutes of freedom to his day, and rages at those in a hurry to get back to the honeypot cos they're gonna get two more before teatime, between impotence and testosterone is the rest of the poor saps on the road, including some very pms women
gmphil,
Feb 24, 9:16am
rekon lol
if they made it mandatory tomorrow that every one sit there licence again here in nz wonder how many be on the bus the next day reading road code waiting to resit have to agree to first post that would be a red flag to a bull
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