🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:46:32 GMT, TS <TS@no.bs.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Jan 1998 19:04:11 GMT, efaubion@oklahoma.net (E. Faubion)
>wrote:
>
>>mutmuder@ix.netcom.com(Jerry Evans) wrote:
>>
>>>A large thing I think is to give elderly persons who are very slow a
>>>test and if they cannot keep up then get them off the road.
>>
>>Keep up with who?   I hope you're referring to the truly dangerous
>>elderly driver and not simply those who drive slower to compensate for
>>age 
>
>BINGO! "They are driving to compensate for age" ?  In other words they
>are no longer capable of saftely maintaining control of their vehicle
>at the average speed and flow of traffic!  Re-testing should be made
>mandatory for ALL citizens over the age of 75. It's not that big a
>inconvenience and if your a capable driver then there is nothing to
>worry about.


Once while making a delivery in Sun City Az, I asked a rather small woman 
why she drove such a large car (Cadillac Fleetwood) after she commented 
that it was difficult for her to control.

She said she wanted to have all that metal around her for WHEN she got 
into an accident.

WHEN, not IF!  

I found that to be selfish and irresponisble that she chose armor plating 
in order to survive the inevitable crash instead of either not driving or 
getting a smaller car that she could control.