elderly drivers

[PragueBlue]

Cont - over simplified (complicated) road junctions, excessive traffic lights etc.etc.
I have little intention of continuing to drive after 70 as the enjoyment has has largely gone - and as for the sense of freedom - taxis are your friend.

Not all elderly people can afford them regularly. My mum doesn't drive very far but she does go out most days.

 

[hilts]

Lot of whataboutery going on here in regards young drivers for some strange reason.

Anyhow I regularly come across an older driver that is so obviously incapable of driving safely that they must be aware of it. Impossible not to be really.

The conclusion? Even old people are capable of being selfish cunts.

 

[hilts]

Not all elderly people can afford them regularly. My mum doesn't drive very far but she does go out most days.

Not being able to afford a taxi is no excuse if someone is a danger to others. I'm sure your mum is perfectly fine though.

 

[PragueBlue]

Not being able to afford a taxi is no excuse if someone is a danger to others. I'm sure your mum is perfectly fine though.

She is. She isn't at all stubborn and is quite aware that she'll have to stop at some stage.

 

[Aguerooooooo93:20]

I wonder if the bloke who forgot his own name is still driving nowadays? :-)

 

[JASR]

Not all elderly people can afford them regularly. My mum doesn't drive very far but she does go out most days.

I’ve started to explore the possibility with my mum.
Cost is very important, especially to a person brought up during the war/postwar period with the lack of goods/make do & mend mindset (which is good, and certainly better than the throwaway society).

I think if anything goes majorly expensive wrong with the car, then that’ll be the point to switch over to taxi’s. Because at that point you can throw in the cost of repair/new car, let alone road tax, fuel, mot, (parking), insurance and servicing - with all the hassle and time that involves.
Lay it out like that, and then work out the average cost of a ‘day out’ in a taxi, times how many days in a year they go out.

Compared to picking up the phone and getting a taxi, I’d say the cost over a year (let alone the hassle of all the other bits you have to deal with on a car), will be far less for someone who just does local drives.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

A survey was done a few years ago and for short local journeys, if you factor all vehicle ownership costs, taxis are cheaper. We are just so reliant....on having them

 

[r.soleofsalford]

The problem bad drivers of any age

 

[Kompany Car]

Lot of whataboutery going on here in regards young drivers for some strange reason.

Anyhow I regularly come across an older driver that is so obviously incapable of driving safely that they must be aware of it. Impossible not to be really.

The conclusion? Even old people are capable of being selfish cunts.

The problem is everyone can be selfish and it’s not productive to single out one group. The roads are used by everyone from pedestrians and horses to trucks, tractors etc. If everyone had just a bit more patience and was so self focused on themselves being more important, better, more capable etc than everybody else then we might not have as many accidents.

 

[Indaparkside]

I hate these cunts that sit in the middle lane of the motorway doing 60 miles an hour oblivious to what’s going on around them, they really are dangerous fuckers