🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:01:37 -0500, Jeff Gyurko <jeffrey.gyurko@citicorp.com> wrote:
>TS 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.
>> 
>This is already happening. I know of someone who failed the re-test
>and now has to turn in their license. Although I do agree with testing
>everyone every 5 years or so, I do think there will be elderly who
>cannot go without driving somewhere and will continue to do it with
>or without a license. 

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.  

As you get older, your eyesight and hearing can go (not always of 
course), your ability to concentrate (maybe).

( 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.