Drivers over 70 stay at home!
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If I were 20 years younger I think I would risk the body balm and forego the DVLA
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If you are behind on your car finance payments you are bring tracked already, but you & your driving behaviour will be in new vehicles from 2022 (this may have changed slightly) as the UK is following these EU guidelines. An alcohol interlock & other systems will be introduced from 2025 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...evices-black-boxes-2022-amid-privacy-row.html
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If you happen to have diabetes and use insulin, then you have to answer medical questions every 3 years anyway and in my case since I had the diabetes before the driving licence I've always had a 3 year licence. Since they took the C1 off us when I was 67-ish, when I renewed mine aged 68, it didn't expire till I was 71 anyway. Since I wear glasses to see anyway I regularly have my eyes tested and in any case as well as the opticians checking every 2 years we get much closer scrutiny of our retinas annually anyway. So I'm very puzzled as to why they chose to mention 'diabetes treated by insulin' as if we weren't ever checked re medical capability prior to attaining age 70 ! Any UK Doctor be he a GP or a hospital consultant is duty bound to tell the DVLA if he considers we're not fit at any age.
Sounds very sensible. I think biometric id cards would also be a good idea I've got nothing to hide.
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Really? Nothing in the fridge when you go on holiday? Do you bring back the correct amount of wine?
I've got nothing where I don't mind ,"doing the time to fit the crime" !!!Really? Nothing in the fridge when you go on holiday? Do you bring back the correct amount of wine?
Like you l do exactly this including what’s at my rear and both sides in busy traffic, its the norm and l don’t even think about it as a driver should take all this in naturally. Too many folk gripping the steering wheel and looking straight forward me thinks.
The telematics are here already in newer cars. It's built into the e-Call emergency system. With ours if you have the manufacturer's App you can even geofence the car, and track it.
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I I must admit to not having the fridge totally empty and have been known to bring illegally distilled calvados back in a wine bottle!.....shhhI was only joshing
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When I commented to my taxi driver in central London that I wouldn't want his job with all the traffic and chaos he said that the secret was to never look behind; just signal and go.
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I avoided a youngish woman who turned into the outside lane of the dual carriageway I was on and headed towards me a couple of years ago. Please explain why it makes perfect sense to ban the over 70s?
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It's amazing when doing track days how at 70yrs old on my standard road legal 1997 750 VFR and the young Jack the Biscuit 30 & 40 yr olds with their track prepared go faster machines can't keep up with you.
They have no idea of racing lines, when to brake, when to roll off the throttle and when to accelerate, all the gear and no idea.
They have no idea of racing lines, when to brake, when to roll off the throttle and when to accelerate, all the gear and no idea.
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Over the last few years far more elderly drivers than younger drivers have done this. Driving the wrong way along motorways, dual carriageways does seem to be thing perpetuated by elderly drivers. Why? I wouldn’t like to guess.
I’ve never attended one of these incidents luckily.
I have attended numerous incidents where elderly drivers have for some inexplicable reason pressed the wrong pedal. Again this type of incident seems more elderly driver related.
I can believe that having done similar in Paris where they will never give way
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I think the answer is really quite simple. There are three reasons, all probably interconnected.
1. As drivers get older they tend to drive less, and drive down "known routes" during daytime and fine weather only. Thus they become disorientated when out of this comfort zone. (Not only true of the elderly though. Plenty of younger motorists who won't drive in the dark or on motorways. I had a friend in her late 20s who travelled 4 miles to work when the direct route was less than a mile because she did not like turning right. - She was married to a driving instructor!)
2. Reduced mental capacity due to dementia starts to happen.
3. Physical impairments become more common. Many elderly refuse to acknowledge these impairments, and that they might affect driving. Poor eyesight, reduced physical mobility are examples. Look how many elderly refuse to accept they have a hearing loss.
Personally I have no objection to having to take a shortened driving test every few years once over the age of 70. Might encourage me to refresh myself on the Highway Code.
... and speaking of poor eyesight, I am getting rather worried by the grey spots drifting in front of my eyes.
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I don't have a problem with driving the car at night, but I have a rule not to drive the moho in the dark & definitely not a long distance if at all possible, because something uncomfortable usually happens!! Last time I broke my own night driving rule on a motorway there was a burning smell & a complete tyre came shooting past out of the dark a couple of inches from the van, at least In daylight I would have seen it!!!I think the answer is really quite simple. There are three reasons, all probably interconnected.
1. As drivers get older they tend to drive less, and drive down "known routes" during daytime and fine weather only. Thus they become disorientated when out of this comfort zone. (Not only true of the elderly though. Plenty of younger motorists who won't drive in the dark or on motorways. I had a friend in her late 20s who travelled 4 miles to work when the direct route was less than a mile because she did not like turning right. - She was married to a driving instructor!)
2. Reduced mental capacity due to dementia starts to happen.
3. Physical impairments become more common. Many elderly refuse to acknowledge these impairments, and that they might affect driving. Poor eyesight, reduced physical mobility are examples. Look how many elderly refuse to accept they have a hearing loss.
Personally I have no objection to having to take a shortened driving test every few years once over the age of 70. Might encourage me to refresh myself on the Highway Code.
... and speaking of poor eyesight, I am getting rather worried by the grey spots drifting in front of my eyes.
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Hope I have hung up my steering wheel before I do something like that,
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I think all drivers should have. Re-fresh every 5 years regardless of age and maybe 3 years after 70.I think the answer is really quite simple. There are three reasons, all probably interconnected.
1. As drivers get older they tend to drive less, and drive down "known routes" during daytime and fine weather only. Thus they become disorientated when out of this comfort zone. (Not only true of the elderly though. Plenty of younger motorists who won't drive in the dark or on motorways. I had a friend in her late 20s who travelled 4 miles to work when the direct route was less than a mile because she did not like turning right. - She was married to a driving instructor!)
2. Reduced mental capacity due to dementia starts to happen.
3. Physical impairments become more common. Many elderly refuse to acknowledge these impairments, and that they might affect driving. Poor eyesight, reduced physical mobility are examples. Look how many elderly refuse to accept they have a hearing loss.
Personally I have no objection to having to take a shortened driving test every few years once over the age of 70. Might encourage me to refresh myself on the Highway Code.
... and speaking of poor eyesight, I am getting rather worried by the grey spots drifting in front of my eyes.
glenn2926
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We (EFAD drivers) were re qualified every 3 years. This at one point included skid pan training and a commentated blue light drive through a town or city the driver wasn’t familiar with.
It was just about the best course to go on.
Please don't start giving the government more money making ideas !!
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I have never been more worried having watched 80 year olds in the US climb into their massive RVs, sometimes requiring more than a leg up and yet they let them just keep going.
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I get worried watching the parking performances of ordinary middle aged drivers in Sainsburys carparks..Used to have less difficulty parking a 44 tonne artic,,BUSBY..
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You might want to read this and stop making it out to be a big issue, when it clearly isn't
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Why aim at older drivers when young drivers are the greatest risk, maybe a speed limiter on cars driven by young drivers with less than say 2 years experience
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No it’s not the younger drivers they can drive better than Hamilton or Verstappen as soon as they get a Licence and show you at every opportunity to prove it.Why aim at older drivers when young drivers are the greatest risk, maybe a speed limiter on cars driven by young drivers with less than say 2 years experience
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