Should Old People Have To Re take their driving tests ????

Fred C

Do you think young people should have to retake their driving tests? I was at a corner in traffic once, the light turned green, and nobody moved because an ambulance was entering the intersection, lights blazing, sirens blaring. The guy in the truck next to me, looked about 20, was honking his horn, flashing his lights, and yelling out his window for people to start moving, the light was green! Do you see a difference in your story and mine? I don't, except the age, so I repeat my question. Do you think young people should have to retake their driving tests?

Tisker

I think that all of the people who agree with you should be forced to drive the bad old drivers around.

William B

ya they should make the roads wider in the uk, I,m 68 and i think i drive better and safer than some young kid who thinks he can take a curve at 60 mph, on the wrong side of the road,

quik66gto

From what I've seen in over a million miles of driving in the U.S.,Canada and Mexico is that age isn't so much the issue. But the people administering these tests need to be tested themselves. Obviously they hand out drivers licenses to anyone who can past the "spoon test". The Gov't dosn't want these bad drivers off the road because they couldn't get out to spend money and keep the economy going or keep the accident rates high so the Gov't can save us. How else can they justify driveing up the taxs. Do you think they will ever "downsize" the Gov't????????????? PLEASE.

Pat S

If seniors are such bad drivers, why do they get discounts on their insurance rates? And why do younger drivers have to pay more? Why don't rental car agencies rent to people under 25? Statistics, that's why.

So before you start questioning seniors' driving abilities, take a closer look at who the most dangerous drivers really are.

flax9

No, young should learn to duck.

yes most definately. My mother is 76 years old and she scares the holy day lights out of me, She drives too slow for one, and then she drives in the middle of the road. I know for a fact she can not see the distance on the other side of her car cause she has hit my truck a few times in her own driveway, yes, they need to regulate these people. I drive for her every chance I get if we are to go somewhere together.

forktail_devil

did it ever occur to u on just HOW they got old? it was from driving with a brain in their head instead of driving reckless like 4 out of 5 teens/20-somethings do. they got old from surviving their mistakes...some of u young one's wont even survive the first mistake.

hmmm u young pups wouldnt get into so many wrecks if u were to put the dam phone down.

Mick

Yeah just the other day I was walking down the street from my neighbors and I hear this old lady say "can you help me" and she's in her car and it's most of the way down the driveway but not on and she doesn't know what's wrong with her car.... well, it wasn't on, and he had it in drive and was trying to start it, and i had to tell her, you can only start it in Park or Neutral... so she puts it in park, starts it up, goes to put it in reverse but get's it neutral and just REVS the holy piss out of the motor. and I though holy god she's gonna blow it up. Then she got it in reverse and used gas and brake at the same time, but eventualy she made it down the stret and out of sight.

Dave S

Definitely. I'm on the road a lot and have seen some older drivers do some unbelievable things. Driving 20 to 30 mph under the limit, changing lanes without signaling or looking, run stop signs red lights etc. I was on the interstate last week and there was a traffic slowdown ahead of me. When I got up to the front there was an old lady driving about 40 mph in the very middle of the two lanes. She obviously had no business being on the road. There was an incident about a year ago not far from where I live where an 80 plus year old woman got confused at a stop sign and instead of hitting the brake pedal hit the accelerator instead. She crashed through a wall of a grade school and killed an 8 year old boy eating his lunch in the cafeteria. I think they should be tested yearly and also have to get clearance from a doctor stating that they are mentally capable of driving.

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chelsea s

i think so to

UCANTCME

WE ALL SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO RETAKE OUR DRIVING TEST BUT BEFORE YOU START LABLING OLDER PEOPLE READ THIS.......................

Sign of the times â€¦The pressures of growing up in modern society â€¦Call it what you will. The fact is that studies have shown:

One out of 10 children ages 12 and 13 uses alcohol at least once a month.

In a single year, 522 children under age 14 were arrested for driving while intoxicated, (113 of them were under 10 years old).

70 percent of all teenagers drink alcohol.

60 percent of all teen deaths in car accidents are alcohol-related.

caution_m3

I would hate to have to re-take a driving test when I get older, but the fact remains that most people won't hang it up when they need to. I think that the law should step in at a certain point, but then the question becomes how old is old enough?

Chris T

Absolutely, the fact of the matter is, with age, you get less aware. My grandfather should NOT be driving... At age 55, I think it should be required every 5yrs.

The fact is, people can "fake it" during their test. Which, I'm sure most 16yr olds do. There's nothing we can do. But at least we know they CAN drive. Follow up exams would rate whether the person can even pretend to drive correctly. If an elderly person can get behind the wheel with an instructor, and pass without a problem, but will still go out and drive horribly the next day, then there is nothing that can be done about that either.

Mercedes M

Old people,should re-take the driving tests, for their own safety.. Because,if old people won't re-take, the result is, there would be a lot of car accident that will occur among this age group,so it is really advisable for this age group to re-take the tests, to determine whether that old person is still capable to drive safely or not...

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