Graduated Licences for New Drivers?

Yeah, "stucture the driving lessons better" - that'll fix it...

(TBH having observed the driving behaviours of a couple of driving instructors there's still likely an issue there too... or at least there are several who will give "this is how it is in practice" lessons on illegal driving on footways / dispelling anti-parking runes by deploying BOLAS...)

Hang ye slack there, big boy. That age restraint would have prevented my family taxi duties for more than 10 years. Not everyone who carries passengers below the age of 30 are open to being "egged on" by such passengers, especially when they are babes in arms.
Notwithstanding the Ford Ka 71 - 155PS is a small car, that's still quite a punch and can hardly be described as low power. I don't think that any car manufacturer would survive producing a deliberately low power car today, but I am open to being proved wrong.
Maybe reducing the power available to below 120PS in cars for those drivers who have less than 2 kids might be a way to go. It would certainly reduce the preponderance of 17 - 27 year olds whizzing about in very small, high powered BMW's, AUDI's, VW's and Cupra's. (Yes, I am aware that the last three are basically the same manufacturer, more ignominy to VAG.)

Spangly Shiny wrote:

Hang ye slack there, big boy. That age restraint would have prevented my family taxi duties for more than 10 years. Not everyone who carries passengers below the age of 30 are open to being "egged on" by such passengers, especially when they are babes in arms.
Notwithstanding the Ford Ka 71 - 155PS is a small car, that's still quite a punch and can hardly be described as low power. I don't think that any car manufacturer would survive producing a deliberately low power car today, but I am open to being proved wrong.
 

I'm not sure the little Ka was ever manufactured with 155ps on tap.  The re-badged Fiat engines were usually between 69 and 84 bhp and were either 1.2 litre petrol or 1.3 litre diesel.  Of course specialist tuners might have worked their magic but not, I would suggest, on the bog-standard model in the crash.

And nowhere did I suggest that everyone should be banned from carrying young passengers;  only inexperienced drivers.

Start with a Canta:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canta_(vehicle)

...next a Kei car... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_car

(Same can apply in reverse if we somehow can't bring ourselves to actually stop proven unsafe drivers driving - just downgrade 'em each time).

Trouble is, that when we begin our driving lives we are all inexperienced drivers. Some, who have had half a lifetime as time touring cyclists (not a lot when you're only 17), tend to have just a wee bit more road nous. But that's by no means a universal condition.
Oh, and you're right the 155 PS Ka was a special, just wanted to make all the lovers of the little beastie appreciative that someone bothered to find out.