MOBILITY matters. Losing the right to drive is, for many elderly people, as traumatic as being widowed. And, as the population ages, that trauma will be felt by more and more people in the future. Yet the safety of other road users, let alone that of an elderly driver himself, is paramount. So, an awful lot rides on the licence-renewal tests older drivers face in certain places--and perhaps even more on the judgment of drivers in places that do not have them. Normal driving tests are flawed, how...
MOBILITY matters. Losing the right to drive is, for many elderly people, as traumatic as being widowed. And, as the population ages, that trauma will be felt by more and more people in the future. Yet the safety of other road users, let alone that of an elderly driver himself, is paramount. So, an awful lot rides on the licence-renewal tests older drivers face in certain places--and perhaps even more on the judgment of drivers in places that do not have them. Normal driving tests are flawed, how...
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