{"id":5185,"date":"2011-02-28T17:01:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T17:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5185"},"modified":"2011-02-28T17:01:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T17:01:26","slug":"older-drivers-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5185","title":{"rendered":"Older Drivers Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one is a letter written to lohud.com &#8211; <span style=\"color: #800000\">an online newspaper serving part of New York. A commonsense opinion, I would say:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">I am approaching my senior years and have many senior-citizen friends who insist on driving their cars well into their 80s. I do believe that some of my dear friends should not be on the road. My position is, anyone who wants to continue driving should take a repeat driver&#8217;s test after the age of 75. I don&#8217;t think I am taking away any of their rights; I am just thinking about safety on the highways and streets. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">A friend of mine is having eye surgery and is well into her 80s. She is still driving her car, partially impaired. I think she should take a cab. Another older man has a truck that he insists he will drive until he dies. I think this is wrong. Give senior citizens an exam to test their ability to follow the rules of the road. Some seniors are terrific drivers, but some are not. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">We worry about drunken drivers; let&#8217;s take good care of our senior drivers by protecting them too. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the comments posted made me laugh:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">My uncle is 99, still drives his SUV and hasn&#8217;t had an accident in 6 weeks&#8230; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, though, the author makes a good point. The problem is often attitude &#8211; just as a young person thinks it is their right to drive and to go fast, older drivers think it&#8217;s <em>their <\/em>right to keep on driving even though they simply can&#8217;t see or think properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one is a letter written to lohud.com &#8211; an online newspaper serving part of New York. A commonsense opinion, I would say: I am approaching my senior years and have many senior-citizen friends who insist on driving their cars well into their 80s. I do believe that some of my dear friends should not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}