Do you think the motor vehicle laws should be changed, so that elderly drivers should have to take annual tests to keep their license? Do you think some elderly drivers are dangerous on the roads?
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yes indeed i do...i know it sucks when the elderly are discriminated against, but many of them are not physically capable of safe driving, just like young people...i dont feel bad for keeping the road safe by not giving a ten year old a license, why should i feel bad for keeping the road safe by taking away a seventy-year-olds?
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YES!!! My father-in-law (age 68) is a certifiable danger. He runs redlights that he doesn't see, and every single corner marker on his old F-150 had been broken repeatedly. He CANNOT stay in one lane. I have seen him veer a good three feet over the yellow line.... AS I WAS PASSING HIM FOR DOING 42 IN A 55! He stopped in the middle of the two-lane highway to make a left turn. No problem there, but he did not siganl and then bitched because the guy behind him honked at us after he slammed on the brakes. While I know of other seniors that can drive better than I, there are enough like my FIL that testing is needed to weed out the dangerous ones.
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