I am for it, but I hope they'll make these tests simple, short and low level. We really only want to remove the ones that a re obviously incapable of driving.
Is there evidence that elder people cause more accidents than younger? I only find opposite data, e.g. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37292951
Finally!
To be fair, there’s also a large quantity of younger drivers that would benefit from this idea. You see some weird things happen in traffic sometimes, and bad driving skills are not exclusive to the elderly.
The retiring age will be 70, we have an huge gap between young and old generation numbers and now this. A lot of old people in the future will need to work and/or will be have little safety net. Think about that.
Only every 5? JFC remind me to never go anywhere near European roads.
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