Should There Be a Mandatory Driving Test for People 75 and Up?

I personally think it would be age discrimination to require seniors at 75 to take a cognitive test, attend a lecture and put a sticker on their car stating they are old people. I am 74, work full time, and by necessity drive to work, and run errands, and see my grandkids. I can see, think and have a perfect driving record. If I can pass the eye exam I see no reason why I should be subjected to any further tests when my license is up for renewal, in two years,when I am 76 years old, and just getting ready to retire.

I agree with the mandatory testing for drivers over 75 that Japan has initiated, but what this article fails to tell you is that these older drivers are forced to place two big magnetic yellow and orange stick ons on to their car to tell other drivers that they are old people...THAT I find wholly unacceptable. I find it to be humiliating and degrading to the older folks, and I know first hand that many of the Japanese feel that way, as my FIL is Japanese, and he hates that darn stick on. It makes him feel singled out and that it just tells everyone that he's older and makes him a target. He passed the test, why must he do anything else......I sure hope the USA doesn't follow that.

"Should there be a mandatory driving test for people 75 and up?" Yes. And not just once: I think everyone should have to take a driving test periodically starting at 75. I know some people will say it's ageism, but by that logic, so are "graduated" licenses (used by many states to ensure safe driving habits among young people). The fact of the matter is, older drivers are more likely to get into fatal accidents than other adults. That's not discrimination, it's statistics.

I am a 70 yr. old female and I honestly believe that, by age 75, I may need to have my driving privileges revoked. As we get older, not only are most of us more physically frail, but our minds are not as sharp as they were even 10 yrs ago. My aunt, 83 at the time, finally sold her car, after t-boning a pickup truck carrying a 3 yr. old child. Yes, I want to drive as long as I can do so w/o endangering others, but I hope I'm aware enough to give up my keys, when the time is here.

My grandmother had Alzheimers' Disease. My mother and her sisters had to take her car away from her because it was dangerous for her to be driving. My grandmother hated to have her car taken from her like a child; but my mother and her sisters had to do what was in the best interest of the general public.