Would you be in favor of retesting driving skills for older motorists?

[MuseRider]

65. Why not?

I am going to be 64 in a couple of months. I am doing fine, had one ticket in my life of driving and one bad accident as my truck spun out on an overpass covered with black ice, no one else was around luckily.

My driving skills are good, I am cautious but I know, as we all should know, that our reflex responses do diminish as does our visual acuity and the mental ability to think rapidly.

Do people really still have ego issues with this?

I would take tests every year and actually I think that is not a bad idea. Now with Uber etc. and cars that help with stopping and parking and whatever else they have now I think adding those tests would be a great idea. If you fail, well why would you want to drive if you can't pass the test? Economically is the only reason I can think of. I live in the boonies, it is going to cost me when that happens but it is what it is. We plan for that.

There are refresher courses available. Maybe that would be a good way to go. My husband had a seizure disorder come about 5 years ago. 6 months of no driving after a seizure. It took almost 4 years to get to that point so he took a refresher course and drives better now that he ever did.

Personally, as a person who must use a highway and an Interstate to get anywhere from where I live I would like to see extra lanes for trucks only. They are so big now and it is windy on Kansas roads and it seems there are more big trucks than cars at any time that I can see. People do not drive well around them and some truckers, so far the vast minority of them, are scary drivers themselves.

Anyway, be safe out there. Get tested and don't get upset when you get old and must find another way, it happens to most of us eventually.