An interesting story in The Vancouver Sun claims that tests used to assess older drivers’ fitness to keep their licences are flawed. The same story is covered in News 1130.
Psychology Professor Allison Sekuler of McMaster University says:
…the doctor’s office is a setting with no need to make instant decisions, to see through “clutter,” or to concentrate on one thing and still notice a pedestrian stepping off the curb.
But she then goes on to claim that old people can be taught to multi-task as well as teenagers, thus cancelling out part of what she initially said.
Some of them might, but not all of them. And far fewer overall than in the teenage group.
And if it were that easy, older drivers wouldn’t be getting in an age-related tangle in the first place.