Dangerous Driving Culture
1. In the article, “Young People, Dangerous Driving and Car Culture” published in Youth Studies Australia, Hannah Graham and Rob White try to dispel the notion that young males driving high-performance vehicles are a major cause of car accidents in Australia. Actually, the research paints a different picture amongst the 18 to 25-year-old crowd. Although young people have more car accidents than mature drivers, youngsters with high-performance vehicles do not have more crashes. Throughout this article hooning is a slang Australian term used, which means the same as street racing in the United States. When two drivers try to outrace each other on public streets, automobile driving makes a turn into the illegal form of motor racing known as street racing or hooning. What makes this topic important is the young men
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The definition of the social phenomenon known as hooning is young men who engage in illegal, dangerous driving such as street racing, burnouts, fishtails, and blast car stereos. On the other hand, the car culture known as street machiners engage in harmless and legal activities such as gathering in vacant parking lots to show off their vehicles and cruise the streets with friends. Hoons’ dangerous driving makes them different from the car culture of street machiners, but there are similarities between them. Primarily, both hoons and street machiners modify their cars to make them look better and move faster. Due to driving similar modified and powerful cars, confusion can set in causing trouble for the car enthusiast when mistaken for a hoon. However, even with the less than the glorious reputation of the hoons, a study by Fuller confirms hooning accidents are not a large part of the road safety problem since dangerous driving usually take place in the controlled spaces of a race track or on rural roads. Therefore, pointing to youthfulness itself as the disadvantage once
The definition of the social phenomenon known as hooning is young men who engage in illegal, dangerous driving such as street racing, burnouts, fishtails, and blast car stereos. On the other hand, the car culture known as street machiners engage in harmless and legal activities such as gathering in vacant parking lots to show off their vehicles and cruise the streets with friends. Hoons’ dangerous driving makes them different from the car culture of street machiners, but there are similarities between them. Primarily, both hoons and street machiners modify their cars to make them look better and move faster. Due to driving similar modified and powerful cars, confusion can set in causing trouble for the car enthusiast when mistaken for a hoon. However, even with the less than the glorious reputation of the hoons, a study by Fuller confirms hooning accidents are not a large part of the road safety problem since dangerous driving usually take place in the controlled spaces of a race track or on rural roads. Therefore, pointing to youthfulness itself as the disadvantage once