‘Press accelerator harder’: Chinese parents who let five-year-old girl drive car around city at night fined after sharing video online

A couple in China let their five-year-old daughter drive their car while filming her and posted the video online, claiming it was a ‘driving lesson’. After the parents posted the video of the girl behind the wheel on social media it was reported to police by shocked Internet users. — SCMP

A couple in China have been fined after posting on social media a video of their five-year-old daughter behind the wheel of their car and driving on the road during what they claimed was a “lesson”.

The parents from Zhuzhou in Hunan, central China, let their daughter drive their car around in a built-up area in late September while filming her on a smartphone, people.cn reported.