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ICBC Cracking Down on Aggressive Drivers

Well for starters, read the article. Now, it's time to comment.

I originally found this article on revscene, which is full of overly aggressive drivers...so naturally a majority of the JDM tite yo civic drivers with cat back exhausts weren't too pleased at this announcement. Most of the arguments on that board were all against the terrible elderly drivers that Victoria is plagued with. Sure, that's true, but drivers going 45km/h tend to do significantly less damage than people flying down McKenzie at 80 in the rain. Do the math idiots...argh!

I for one am glad that the BC government and ICBC are getting together to enforce driving safety and penalizing those people who think that excessive speeding is the cool thing to do. The main reason that these new regulations are great for people like me, is that I'm in such a poor driving demographic. I'm 23 years old and drive a sports car with lots of power. Does this mean I should pay a higher premium than everybody else? No! But I do, and it sucks. Guilty until proven innocent for 8 years of safe driving.

What this new system would allow is to reward those with good driving history. I still have yet to get any speeding tickets and am responsible for only 1 fender bender in first year Uni . I let my foot off the brake in my old automatic car and hit some dude's truck. I wasn't interested in losing my discount so I just paid the $600 repair bill out of pocket. So six years later, I still am not at full discount and it costs me $1300/yr to insure my supra.

And the only reason why I'm paying so much, is because of young males ages 16-25 who think that they are better drivers than everybody else and speed excessively. Then of course, they get into numerous accidents, can't afford to pay the repairs out of their own pocket and let ICBC cover their costs at the expensive that their premiums go up. Get enough people to do this, and everybody's premiums go up! There certainly isn't a shortage of aggressive drivers out there.

Now if this new scheme would take into account how many "infractions" you have on your driving record in order to calculate your yearly rate, I say AMEN! Bring on the savings.

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