Elderly Drivers

American citizens all have the same rights. We don’t discriminate on race, gender, or age, but sometimes we should make exceptions. All drivers have to get a license before they are legally able to drive. In order to legally drive every year every person should take a test on their vision, reflections, and hearing to renew their license. The years don’t pass in vain and after some time we start losing these attributes.  There can be a law where they prevent elder people from driving, but some elders are still in a well condition and can drive perfectly. Many old people do lose their reflections and often confuse the gas pedal for the breaks a fatal mistake that can cause the deaths of many innocent pedestrians. Others don’t have good eye sight and aren’t able to see signs that are important to locate while driving. To prevent these accidents drastic measures have to be taken. If we pick on the elders we have to remember that we will also get old and once that happens we also won’t be able to drive and get around town. So the best thing to do is to take several tests every year to see that your skills you need to have to drive haven’t diminished. I feel that elder people aren’t the only people that cause accidents so the test that they take should be applied to everyone. There are crazy people out in the streets that shouldn’t be driving that cause accidents as well. The death rates in car accidents have to do more with teens because they are wild and immature. Older people tend to have more precautions while driving and most of them don’t drink and drive. I think this issue of driving can go both ways because sometimes we criticize older people driving but they don’t provoke as much accidents as teens. It is proven that many elders lose their eye sight but they get glasses which helps them out. Reflexes are an important characteristic that old people lose. If they are driving fast and see a civilian crossing they should be fast enough to break.  In a simple second they can commit a mistake that can cost them their freedom. Not only can they go to jail, but they drag other people in this issue. I conclude with proposing the idea of a harder driving test. The DMV shouldn’t allow people with certain types of problems to be driving out there. They put the lives of a lot of people in danger. Having a variety of different tests that will sharpen our abilities to perform better driving would greatly decrease death rates in car accidents.