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TS wrote:
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> >There's no valid reason to "retest" most people.
> >
> >Driving skill doesn't deteriorate (assuming you possessed it in the first
> >place :-) for the most part.
> 
> Your reflexes do

And the ability, acquired through experience, to anticipate grows more quickly
than reflexes fade. The prime of the animal is at age 17, but the prime of
experience, before impeded by the deterioration of oncoming age, is roughly
55.

Anticipation of pattern and well-patterned holocharted responses will in every
instance (except for blind luck or true genius) completely outweigh animal
speed limited by a lack of _comprehension_ and _anticipation_.

There's a reason there aren't many tigers left, if you get my drift. They're
lots faster and stronger than men, but men _know_ tigers. The same holds true
as regards traffic. 

If course, most days you get the tiger and one day the tiger gets you. 

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> >
> >As you get older, your eyesight and hearing can go (not always of
> >course), your ability to concentrate (maybe).
> 
> And that will not effect your driving capabilities? get real, I think
> your arguing against your self here.

Drivers over 55 or so tend to experience some minor deterioration varying on
the individual's expected longevity, but as a rule, a person with 20/20 vision
will not suffer significant impairment until roughly the age of 68 to 70. 

The ability to concentrate is more problematic. Depending on the driver, quite
often concentration isn't an issue by the time one is in late middle-age.
Outside of cellular phones, one of the biggest causes of driver inattention is
small children in the vehicle. By late middle age this isn't really likely to
be an issue.

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> >
> >( and as we've all seen, some people actually "shrink" and can't see over
> >the wheel :-)
> >
> >Barring physical and or mental illnesses and injuries, people generally
> >do not need to be "retested" on a regular basis.
> >
> >
> >AZ now issues a license that doesn't expire until your 60th birthday, at
> >which time you're retested every few years.
> >
> AZ is not NJ, driving in NJ is far more demanding.

Yeah right, you've got some native driving sideways down the highway at you
going 90 in a trashed-out pickup behind the influence of peyote, ritual, and
maybe alcohol. That's not demanding. And you have noplace to go except into a
ditch and that's if you're lucky, could be you're on a mountainside with
noplace to go except waaaay down.

In Jersey you can always drive on the sidewalk, judging from a lot of the
bumber stickers I've seen on Jersey vehicles, that's a common place to drive.

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