Also ban on turning off traction control
“Just because you can afford it doesn’t mean you can drive well,” it is said when someone again parks a supercar against a wall. In any case, in South Australia, the government is completely fed up with overconfident rich people with supercars. There they want to require special driving lessons before you can use it on the road.
A supercar can be life-threatening in the wrong hands and unfortunately it sometimes shows. Anyone with a driver’s license and enough money can get behind the wheel of a Lamborghini Aventador or Ferrari SF90, but such cars require a calm right foot or adequate vehicle control. A Lamborghini Huracán owner from Australia apparently had neither when he killed a woman in 2019. That case prompted the Prime Minister of South Australia, Peter Malinauskas, to amend the legislation on supercars.
At the Australian CarExpert we read that Malinauskas wants to pass a law this year that obliges supercar owners to take special driving lessons. It teaches you how to drive a car with a lot of power and eventually an assessment of the vehicle control follows. If that is not sufficient, then you are not allowed to drive a supercar or buy it. Those who can handle it will receive a special driver’s license. It is not entirely clear where the line is drawn between a regular car and a supercar. Incidentally, there is also a bill ready that makes it illegal to switch off traction control. After all, with the push of a button on a perfectly tamable sports car, you can make an unhinged beast that the average mortal barely knows what to do with.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl