Here’s an approach that will work for me when the time comes:
Focus on the biggest and earliest sign: loss of night vision and inability to adjust to bright headlights of opposing cars.
These are limitations we older people readily admit to and openly complain about. Sure, we may blame it on the modern headlights being too bright or failure of today’s drivers to lower their high beams.
There is some truth to this - the headlights have gotten brighter, and more and more drivers do lack etiquette regarding leaving their high beams on.
So this is a way of meeting half way on the subject of difficulties of night driving - sharing the blame so to speak - rather than simply saying we’re too old to drive. While you’re at it, you could bring up how insane it is to raise the speed limits so high beyond the 55 we grew up with. I’ll give you an earful. Then we could talk about how Leftists want to confiscate everyone’s guns if it will save just one life - why don’t they use the same logic regarding automobiles?
Look, we know that we old people have more trouble seeing at night and that young people don’t - so this approach opens the door to a conversation about the insanity of driving at night - or the insanity of driving at all - without focusing on the age thing.
Once we’ve acknowledged there is an age factor.. perhaps we can go to the next step…. the fact that we can’t turn our necks, etc.. :-)
And perhaps you should offer us a free Uber account.
I’m only 73 and I’m already leary of driving at night - especially in the winter when it gets dark during rush hour. If I had a free uber account I’d give away my keys in a heartbeat.
You raised an interesting issue......Uber.
If you calculate the annual cost for owning a car, add the cost of operating it might turn out that Uber is better.
As an old person, having Uber account might be better than owning and driving a car.
If there is a need or a desire to travel, rental might still be less expensive.