The Importance Of Driving

When you hit 70 years of age, you have to renew your license. Some states may require a medical test or an eye exam, but they don’t require you to take the actual drivers test over again.

Would you not agree you lose muscle movement and some reaction time when you get older?

Someone who has some of those abilities is just as dangerous as a new driver on the road. Even as you get older, you assume that you can cut corners driving, like rolling through a stop sign or making an illegally U-turn. Over time, you become more comfortable with driving that even the most extreme things seem okay to do while driving. The more people feel relaxed in the car the less they worry about actually being safe. According to the Center for Disease Control and

People who suffer from seizures and narcolepsy have restrictions from doctors and the state to make sure that not only that person but the other people on the road are safe too. Most states require that a person at seventy have to renew their license and at that time take a medical and eye exam to make sure they are in good health. The decline in vision and movement when you get older is the main cause the ability for elderly people to not be able to operate a vehicle. With the two exams doctors can catch if there is a drastic change that should cause them to not be able to drive a car. In more recent posts an article stated “In

February 2014 the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s Highway Loss Data Institute (IIHS) released a report showing that older drivers are now less likely to be involved in a crash and less likely to be injured or killed” (“Older Drivers”). These reports have shown a decrease in elderly related crashes which might be from the weather some states have recently gotten. Most elderly try to limit their driving during the day when it is extremely busy out and reduce the amount they go out in bad weather. With the elderly reducing these two activities it has brought down

When these crashes do happen they usually steam from a vision or medical problem that the elderly driver had. With doing the eye and medical exam it might just be enough to stop some senior citizens from getting back on the road.

Taking your driver’s test again is beneficial because it tests your safety skills, updates your driving information, and evaluates your driving ability. Just because they do not want to lose their freedom does not mean someone has to lose their life. Not being prepared on the road is a very dangerous thing and should be taken more serious. There are hundreds of car accidents every year in every state. If we could start to fix some of these problems the road might be a safer place. Retaking your test after seventy is a great way to start. The rules of the road change all the time and your skills are not always as sharp as they once were. The test takes a total of fifteen to twenty minutes and you already have to go in to renew your license. The time needs to be taken to make sure even though a person is passed all exams they have a firm grasp on their driving skills. A test retake is very important to the safety of our