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Should there be an upper age limit on driver\'s licenses?
After just getting back home after almost getting sideswiped and t-boned by two different octogenarians, I'm questioning how old people are even allowed on the road.
Should there be some sort of an upper age limit to driver's licenses? Or at the very least, more restrictions (i.e. tested every year)? I would probably set an upper limit at 65, just to be safe. These 80-year old geezers on the road are flat-out liabilities. Now yea, sure, I'm sure your 85-year old grandpa can drive just fine or whatever. But I'm just as sure there are some pretty mature/coordinated 12 year olds out there too, and they don't get to drive. I don't really support hard age-limits, but I think 16 is a pretty decent lower limit on licenses. The lower limit is presumably 16 because early teens don't have the physical/mental coordination to handle driving, especially in high-stress situations. But I don't think 80-year olds can handle it either, for the same reasons. I dunno, maybe I'm just ranting because I'm pissed off, but I really would like to see some changes. |
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Re: Should there be an upper age limit on driver\'s licenses?
Yes. But old people can and do vote, so this will never happen.
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Re: Should there be an upper age limit on driver\'s licenses?
There are some counties which has older drivers retake the driver's test whenever the license is renewed.
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Re: Should there be an upper age limit on driver\'s licenses?
Maybe not an actual age limit...but yes to being often tested.
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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. [/ QUOTE ] This is the case in Canada |
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Re: Should there be an upper age limit on driver\'s licenses?
high schoolers shouldn't drive.
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Re: Should there be an upper age limit on driver\'s licenses?
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[ QUOTE ] There are some counties which has older drivers retake the driver's test whenever the license is renewed. [/ QUOTE ] This is the case in Canada [/ QUOTE ] 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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Re: Should there be an upper age limit on driver\'s licenses?
In AZ your license is good until your 65th birthday and then after that I think you must go in every 5 years to get one.
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Re: Should there be an upper age limit on driver\'s licenses?
I don't think there should be any age limits, but much stricter competency restrictions
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Re: Should there be an upper age limit on driver\'s licenses?
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I don't think there should be any age limits, but much stricter competency restrictions [/ QUOTE ] |
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