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Originally Posted by sen10l

<edit: my bad, it is a fake video. Viral ad for dominos pizza!>

Second of all, responsibility has got nothing to do with it. Even surgeons who have just graduated have to be interns for a few years before they can solo it. A car is very complicated machine and the road rules are very complicated at first.

A reduction in power keeps the driver within the boundaries of controllability. You cannot over-accelerate a civic out of control by accident.

This is not about responsibility. The kid may very well be responsible, but accidents/loss-of-concentration/distractions happen to everyone, and it takes experience to know how to handle these things. You read all the time about very experienced drivers making stupid mistakes because they didn't know how to handle whatever freak circumstance and they over-compensated or whatever and crashed. With less power, it allows you to compensate without running the danger of over-compensating.

This is just common-sense, and I am quite shocked that some of you don't understand this. But I guess I'm not surprised given all the young people we see dying doing "stupid" things that could have been avoided with the right parental guidance. I'd hate to be your kids if you think it's okay for me to have a 400HP+ car at 15 years old. I'd be a Darwin award winner waiting to happen, and my nomination should have been yours in the first place.

well said.