Come 2022, the driver’s seven-month sentence was dumped to just shy of five months, with 200 hours of community service and the suspension of their driver’s licence for aThe victim’s family walked out on his apology, and you can hardly blame them. It’s also a wake-up call to the rest of the world that just because we have to share the road with people who can buy far more car than they can handle, they shouldn’t be allowed to kill us and walk away making a sad face.
Owners of vehicles considered UHPVs would be required to take online training to receive what will be called a “U Class” licence. And, in what might be a first of its kind, hefty fines would kick in if “motorists…deliberately disable an ‘automated intervention system’ on a UHPV.” This means no more turning off the nanny systems would-be racers hate so much, such as automated emergency braking, electronic stability control, and traction control.
We’ve made drivers of transport trucks qualify for more intensive licence designations forever, though watching the way many of those are now piloted on our highways indicates that once noble profession has itself fallen to shards. Even a G licence, the lowest on the pole, still requires almost nothing to attain in Ontario, the COVID-backlog dumbing-down of its test requirements remaining in place. We don’t train drivers, we don’t test them, and we don’t hold them accountable.