Re: Should there be an upper age limit on driver\'s licenses?
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There are some counties which has older drivers retake the driver's test whenever the license is renewed.
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This is the case in Canada
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1. Every province sets its own rules for driver licensing.
2. Ontario had, for a very brief time, older drivers (over 80 I believe, maybe a little lower) take a road test when they renewed their license. But due to budget cuts (and I think huge waiting times to get a road test because of people driving on their G2 without getting their full G license) this was cut back to just making them take a written test. A written test is a step in the right direction, but will only weed out the extremely senile drivers. A road test is what is needed because its the reaction time/physical coordination that is the biggest worry with older drivers. Also, just because they know the laws while sitting at a desk with lots of time it doesn't mean they can process that information fast enough while driving.
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