Older drivers too cautious for you, OP? Did you have to wait at the light for far too long?

Anonymous wrote:And also teen drivers are overwhelmingly likely to become better drivers as time goes on?? The opposite is true for elderly drivers and yet, they just keep driving - until their kids are forced to take the keys away or until they kill someone. And even then it’s still up to them, it’s not like they kill people and lose their license.

I'm more concerned about the people who have multiple DWIs and keep driving around. Why aren't they off the road?

Anonymous wrote:This is likely because insurance and driving laws haven’t caught up with the fact that people are living - and thus legally driving because they don’t even have to take a physical driving test when they renew - SO much longer than they were when those rates and laws took effect. It’s 79 now in the US and was 73 in 1980 - and likely to just keep increasing. Google elderly drivers driving into buildings or elderly drivers fatal accident and you will be shocked. If you are happy with 95 year olds on the road I guess good for you?? I’m not because I see every day that it’s not safe!

lol. You think insurance companies aren’t tracking this and couldn’t change premiums at the drop of a hat? If so, I have that bridge in Brooklyn you can buy and drive over.

And also teen drivers are overwhelmingly likely to become better drivers as time goes on?? The opposite is true for elderly drivers and yet, they just keep driving - until their kids are forced to take the keys away or until they kill someone. And even then it’s still up to them, it’s not like they kill people and lose their license.

Anonymous wrote:This is likely because insurance and driving laws haven’t caught up with the fact that people are living - and thus legally driving because they don’t even have to take a physical driving test when they renew - SO much longer than they were when those rates and laws took effect. It’s 79 now in the US and was 73 in 1980 - and likely to just keep increasing. Google elderly drivers driving into buildings or elderly drivers fatal accident and you will be shocked. If you are happy with 95 year olds on the road I guess good for you?? I’m not because I see every day that it’s not safe!

Sure, that's it. They would have no way to readjust rates based on age in a timely fashion.

This is likely because insurance and driving laws haven’t caught up with the fact that people are living - and thus legally driving because they don’t even have to take a physical driving test when they renew - SO much longer than they were when those rates and laws took effect. It’s 79 now in the US and was 73 in 1980 - and likely to just keep increasing. Google elderly drivers driving into buildings or elderly drivers fatal accident and you will be shocked. If you are happy with 95 year olds on the road I guess good for you?? I’m not because I see every day that it’s not safe!

Insurance is far more expensive for my teens and twenty something kids than for me. Guess why. They are worse drivers and cause more accidents. Should they be off the road too?

Anonymous wrote:Have you quit your job to drive your parents around all day?

Nope because they have SO many other options now but your question is proving my point - just because someone WANTS to go places doesn’t mean that desire is more important than the safety of everyone else on the road. My 15 year old would love to drive himself around but it’s not safe for him to do that so there is a law against it. He doesn’t get to just do what he wants at the expense of others. And it’s not just having a ‘bad experience’ with elderly drivers - it’s stories in the news almost daily about elderly drivers killing and injuring people (Parthenon Restaurant here should ring a bell) and also damaging property while miraculously not injuring anyone - River Road Whole Foods, Flex All Day Store, etc etc etc. There is a point where people are no longer road safe and just because they WANT to drive doesn’t mean they should - and I don’t understand how that is even a point to be argued. The most selfish generation strikes again.

Anonymous wrote:I doubt it’s the Boomers who are driving on the Beltway at speeds above 80, cutting in and out of lanes as if it were a video game.

+1

I’ll take a boomer driver over a 20 something who thinks he’s a formula one racer going 100 mph on the beltway any day!

This probably should be posted in Cars thread

Have you quit your job to drive your parents around all day?

I doubt it’s the Boomers who are driving on the Beltway at speeds above 80, cutting in and out of lanes as if it were a video game.

You do realize that many Boomers are only in their early 60’s.

Stop labeling an entire generation of people because you’ve had a bad experience with a random older person who is probably Silent Generation.

—signed someone much younger than the youngest Boomer

Dear Boomers - Please stop driving before you kill someone or damage even more property by ‘accidentally’ driving into someone’s home or business - which seems to happen all the time without repercussions. This is willful negligence on your part and not an accident. Your adult children should NOT be in the position of ‘asking’ you to stop driving. Nor should an accident be the reason you stop. People are living much longer than the driving laws anticipated when they were written. Continuing to drive is selfish and dangerous, and unnecessary now that there are ride share apps and easy cab booking. Signed, Literally everyone who has to share the road with you.