guess what happens next...

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Feb 07, 2011 10:45 pm Post subject: guess what happens next...

This is why,i think, at a certain age you should have to retake your damn drivers license test... Im thinkin around 65 and on... way to many older people are causing WAY to many accidents... I live in Boca Raton, Fl and i see some times several a day...

thatwasrad · Posted: Feb 07, 2011 10:51 pm Post subject:

saw this video earlier today, and i agree, but i think the age should be a little younger to retake the test. like 50 would be a good age.

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10735 City: Jefferton

I can hardly wait until you guys are 50 or 65. I agree that at a certain point elderly drivers can do more harm than good with their driving. But I'm completely amused--my parents are 66 and they're some of the most cautious drivers I know, not to mention neither of them have ever gotten into a car accident. 65 isn't as old as you think (let alone 50). Bottom line, people need to pay attention and drive according to the conditions. It could easily have been a young person rear ending that dude because they were texting, talking on a cell phone, screwing with the radio, or generally being distracted.

scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

Driving needs to become a privilege and not a right. It's too bad that our society of entitlement begs to differ. Confused

And I'll kinda agree with both sides on this one- 50 really isn't that old at all, but for some this seems to be where motor/mental skills begin to deteriorate. It wouldn't be a bad place to start re-testing/re-evaluating drivers for 'old age,' but I'd really like to see it happen more frequently for everyone.

gporter · Posted: Feb 08, 2011 4:49 am Post subject:

This one is crazy too!

coricluster · Backside 180 Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 1826 City: berlin

you would be thinking totally the opposite if you had a kid that got rear ended by an elderly person while on a bike. i am totally all for an age limit before a test retake, if you are elderly and you pass the test, good for you that is a half a day of your life wasted just so we know that someone else will be safe. and if you dont pass then sucks to be you but you shouldnt be able to drive anymore. its simple.

LeJalapeno · Ollie Joined: 27 Nov 2010 Posts: 89

Maybe we should just continue to send all our old people to florida..

Frye · Guest Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 3335

GnarShredd · Backside 180 Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 1529 City: Seattle

I think driver's tests should be more difficult to start with. My entire driving test took place in a parking lot where the most difficult thing I had to do was park the car and then back out of the spot (which, well, you do when you start and end the test, haha, I guess they make you do it again during the test for good measure).

I agree with scott a entirely. Driving is treated as a right and not a privelege.

word · Posted: Feb 08, 2011 1:06 pm Post subject:

It all boils down to people not paying attention, or running a red light because they don't feel like waiting.

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10735 City: Jefferton

coricluster, I'd also be upset if it were a young (or "younger") person who hit a cyclist (or my non-existent kid). I'm saying every age range has people who chickity china the chinese chicken up in a car, be it from not paying attention to driving while intoxicated. My dad used to be a body man and now he works in the office of a body shop. It's not just old people who drive carelessly. trust me.

brassmonkey · Posted: Feb 08, 2011 4:46 pm Post subject:

gporter · Posted: Feb 08, 2011 5:07 pm Post subject:

They probably just didn't see him. Must be a ninja or something.

Guy · Backside 180 Joined: 14 Jul 2006 Posts: 842 City: Orillia

I'm for mandatory in car re-test when you renew your drivers license (get new picture and they check you eye sight).

That would be every five years in Ontario.

PIRATE · Kickflip Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 2651

should be noted that most High Mechanism accidents happen with younger drivers. While I agree that old people need to be regulated, at 50 most people are starting to drive slower. Fender Benders are not the problem....... Young people talking, texting and showing off there "tokyo drift" skills are. Everyone on here has driven like an A$$hole at one time or another... Most people are over confident in there driving skills..............

supermanotorious · Backside 180 Joined: 05 Apr 2010 Posts: 518 City: Phoenix

I've been wanting a bike for so long but that scares the crap out of me, you can be as careful as possible but you can't control the idiots around you

Steven M · Posted: Feb 10, 2011 11:17 am Post subject:

supermanotorious, honest to god, i felt safer living/driving in miami on my streetbike than I did in a car. Actually for the most part I still feel that way.