99 year old on wrong side of road and no headlights in RV

drsteve wrote:

troubledwaters wrote:

Well I have a problem with it. I don't like the idea of creating BS laws to fix non-existent problems. In the grand scheme of things considering the trillions of miles driven every year, the system seems to be working just fine like it is.

The very first post in this thread proves that there is indeed a problem, and that the system is NOT working just fine.

And for some reason, at a time when there are more drivers on the road than ever before, most public school systems have eliminated driver education from their curriculum. And with more and more older drivers who face a future of deteriorating skills, many states no longer do road tests at the DMV, nor do they require one for license renewal.

Making any significant changes to "the system" assumes that the changes can effectively address the issues. That's a BIG assumption in my mind. The "testing" we have barely resembles actual driving and furthermore people are usually on their best behavior during those tests. Hence, one of the few things you can test for is eyesight as that can't be faked and is often overlooked when it slowly degrades. Perhaps a reaction time test is in order though even that unfairly penalizes someone with poor reaction time who is still a safe driver at lower speeds.

In my opinion, the anecdotal observations of how bad all the other drivers are do not correlate with how many would fail a retest.