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

[JonLP24]

143. Think about it

I got my license when I was 18 and first time I was at a major intersection I was thinking about "right turn on red" I didn't even think about the green arrow so when I turned a car was coming toward me so I drove on the sidewalk. Not long later I was in AIT in the Army as an 88M (heavy vehicle operator) and ran into a sign with a 5 ton or a deuce & a half on a driving course . I didn't drive at all after AIT for several months except one time a soldier with multiple DUIs had someone drive his car to the motor pool (all we did there was kick rocks) than after asked me to drive his long car back to the Company I scraped a car parking next to it. Someone from the sister Company came running out there but since this hurt him more especially in regards to insurance rates the guy agreed not to go through with that as long as we replaced his engine in his old car (I paid over $500 for the engine and the guy who let me drive his car was telling me I owe him money months later and told other people I owed him money so he had his friends talk shit but basically it's a long story and a lot of hassle for just a scratch and personally feel the guy who wanted his engine replaced took advantage of the situation.)

My friend let me borrow his Caprice when he went on leave which I didn't have problems except when I was by Sea-Tac I accidentally cut someone off who was in my blind spot who then honked and flipped me off for at-least a quarter mile. I didn't really learn how to drive until I was in Iraq where I drove about 18,000 miles in 7 months (the other 5 months I had a broken hand). Driving around Kuwait City was a challenge because of the traffic and I was driving a Freightliner M915A2 w/ a trailer but in Iraq we mostly drove at night except when driving south on MSR Tampa south of CSC Scania so no cars were around because of the curfew but there were a lot of "Jersey Barriers" (I don't know if you ever seen a military checkpoint but we drove through those all the time). I never wrecked even though a couple of times I snapped the trailer brakes (I had to maintain a larger following distance in the convoy and use my engine brake more which I rarely used) and one of those times was in mountainous Northern Iraq to "Key West" (a base east of Mosul).

By the time I got back I was pro driver at 19 going on 20 so what the poster says before you makes a lot of sense especially in terms of my experience.