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"Federal officials caution against concluding that older drivers' skills are suspect. ''Just because you reach an age threshold doesn't mean your driving skills have diminished,'' says Rae Tyson, a spokesman for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. ''Teenagers are responsible for far more fatal accidents.'' "

love the contradictions here so becoming a teenager is not an "age threshold"?

anyway IMHO I believe there should be some sort of testing, this whole notion that you never lose you driving skills is a load of PC Barbra Striesand, "lets not offend the old people now, or they may not vote for us".

If you can't tell you are hitting the gas instead of the brakes for THREE whole blocks all while you are running over people and running through stands I would rate that a major diminishment of ones driving skills.

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Teenagers are responsible for far more fatal accidents.

More specifically, teens who are driving other teens, which is why my teenage children are not allowed to drive other teens anywhere, nor are they allowed to ride with most teens.

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"love the contradictions here so becoming a teenager is not an "age threshold"? "

and there is a big differance why teenagers and elder drivers are some of the worse ( thought personally, I think young 20 something women are the worse)

teenagers get in trouble because of lack of expierence, risk taking ....its not their reflexes or their eyesight...or their arthritic knees or poor hearing...

with oldsters, it is a physical and mental and neurological deterioration that causes problems....