When does old become too old?
when it comes to driving, shouldn't there be a point at which you realize you are too old to keep up? shouldn't you take yourself out of traffic, out of the driver's seat because you are endangering yourself and others? you are old, you can barely see, you can barely hear, you can barely move. what makes you think you still are capable of operating a motor vehicle?

what gets me even more is the people who are handicapped and still drive around. now, i am going to make a huge, sweeping, most-likely offensive, generalization, but come on! get off the road! if you are incapable of walking the 30 yards from a regular parking space to a shop or store, then why do you get to drive a car? i would really like to know how many other nations give out special license plates for handicapped people. i mean, how does that work? you come in and say, "yes, hello, my leg has been amputated and i have no arms, so i would like to apply for a handicapped license plate." and what is up with the DMV actually giving handicapped people the ability and right to drive? i mean there are some things where the safety and benefit of the entire population needs to come into your calculations of the situation when you decide that in spite of a person's debilitating condition that limits their ability to see, hear, walk, move, eat....etc, you will look the other way and uphold their right to have the freedom behind the wheel to drive and make everyone else's life on the road a living hell.

i feel like if this was Germany (and not just Hitler Nazi regime, exterminating cripples and homosexuals and Jews) and a handicapped person walked into the German version of the DMV (which I am sure is a much more efficient system) and asked for a license to drive a car, they would laugh in that person's face. is that mean? is that cruel? is that insensitive? yes, most likely all of those things. but they are Germans and they never laugh, so it might be good for them to have a good chuckle once in a while. and is it really that much to expect that the people behind the wheel of a powerful machine, like a car, be of sound body and mind, able to optimally use all their senses? i think not. and sure, that might mean the system for getting a diver's license is a little more strict and you can't just walk in and get one whenever you want. it would be a step towards safety on the roads, not intolerance or discrimination. it is a privilege to drive a car on our roads, not a right. and someone has to rule when that privilege needs to be revoked.

if you don't agree or understand, then that is fine. that is your prerogative. but come down and live amid the retirees in Williamsburg, or maybe Florida, and tell me if that changes your mind at all.