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To: SMGFan

I’m 68 and over the past few years I have noticed the deterioration of my driving skills and I completely agree ... driving tests every few years after 70.

I just hope I’m wise enough to recognize when I should give up my car keys or, at the very least, listen when others tell me it is time.


10 posted on 09/09/2014 6:32:48 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: doc1019
I've got a whole passle of kids that will be sequencing through their teen driving years starting in a couple of years.

I have been told with some authority, that grandpa won't have to drive again, once they get their licenses. ;)

I think I'll just take them up on that. I hate to drive.

/johnny

13 posted on 09/09/2014 6:36:05 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: doc1019

“I’m 68 and over the past few years I have noticed the deterioration of my driving skills “

Well,, I am 68 also, 69 in a month. I still go to the go-kart tracks. The thing that bums me out are that the Karts are so slow. My driving skills are fine!


14 posted on 09/09/2014 6:37:42 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: doc1019
driving tests every few years six months after 70
22 posted on 09/09/2014 6:49:47 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: doc1019
Might have been a mini-stroke which tend to occur as we age even if driving skills are still sharp. Don't know if testing can predict them, probably not. Still, I would imagine more people get killed by teenage drives than old ones. Hard to kill anybody at ten miles an hour(mall speed.)
27 posted on 09/09/2014 7:01:24 PM PDT by Old North State
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