OT: Woman drives INTO the DMV to renew her license

[pRON aHOLIC]

http://www.nbc6.net/news/11136424/detail.html?rss=ami&psp=news#

Only minor injuries! The video says it all.

[space-time]

why would someone 80 years old drive a car? In other countries, you have to take a physical and mental exam every 5 years in order to drive, then after age of 45 every 3 years, and after 60 every year. You can drive till you drop IF you are healthy, physically and mentally. here in the US, you take a vision test one (but you can be NUTS, no one check if you are mentally sane), yet you get the driver's license. Then no one cares, there are people legally blind out there driving on highways.

[yeoman]

space-time wrote "...why would someone 80 years old drive a car?" My 92 year old father-in-law lives on his own on his farm in the middle of farm country in Minnesota. He just got his license renewed. To get around - that's why.

[BigGuynRusty]

[quote space-time]why would someone 80 years old drive a car? In other countries, you have to take a physical and mental exam every 5 years in order to drive, then after age of 45 every 3 years, and after 60 every year. You can drive till you drop IF you are healthy, physically and mentally. here in the US, you take a vision test one (but you can be NUTS, no one check if you are mentally sane), yet you get the driver's license. Then no one cares, there are people legally blind out there driving on highways.
Because so many folks believe that driving is a right, not a privilege in this country.
California is FINALLY changing its testing standards.
We had that 88 year old man killed over a dozen folks in Santa Monica.
I don't know if Yeoman is kidding or not, really sad if he/she is not.

BGnR

[OWC Jamie]

You don't have to be ancient to step on the gas by mistake.
You can also be a Hollywood teen-ish actress.
:-)

[OWC Jamie]

I'd rather be a passenger in Yeoman's 92 y/o FIL car than his great grand-daughter's, for the first 6 months after she gets her license.

Thruth be told being a passenger in a centarians'car is probably a lot safer than half of the younger fools on the road today.
Especially the idiots that don't know what this sign means:


nor this one:

[pRON aHOLIC]

Most senior citizen drivers I know don't use a cell phone while driving because they don't own one.

[space-time]

[quote billb]I'd rather be a passenger in Yeoman's 92 y/o FIL car than his great grand-daughter's, for the first 6 months after she gets her license.
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I don't care who's INSIDE the car. I care about the ones OUTSIDE his car. A 92 year old shouldn't drive, unless he/she is in EXCEPTIONAL health, like I said, physically and metally.

[Racer X]

I think they should retest everyone at every renewel. Driving is a privelege, not a right. Just because you knew the rules in 1952 when you got your liscense doesn't mean you still know them, or that they haven't changed, nor that you can still physically drive safely.

[vision63]

In those other countries someone will haul that senior where they need to go. At least in Europe.