NationStates Jolt Archive

Many civilizations honor the elders of their people and rightfully so. However, they are becoming a great threat to national safety because of their driving habits. The deteriation of eyesight and quick response ability severly endangers themselves and others. At the age of 60, and every 2 years after, all men and women who posses a driver's liscence shall have to be re-examined in eyesight and reflexes. Old people should be cherished, not inadvertant mass-murders.

Many civilizations honor the elders of their people and rightfully so. However, they are becoming a great threat to national safety because of their driving habits. The deteriation of eyesight and quick response ability severly endangers themselves and others. At the age of 60, and every 2 years after, all men and women who posses a driver's liscence shall have to be re-examined in eyesight and reflexes. Old people should be cherished, not inadvertant mass-murders.

The Aristoi of the Logarchy allow our aged to commit euthanasia when they have passed on their wisdom to their children and have submitted a full accounting of their lives to our Hall of Records. We recognize that after a time it becomes difficult to function in society. Thus it is, as Therapon Protarchon of the Logarchy, that I encourage the U.N. to adopt this proposal.

as long as you make the private passinger automobile the primary
means of transportation you are going to have unsafe drivers on the
road. period.
old, drunk, young, fatigued, you name it, the're going to be there,
even if you impose the death penalty for it (which in a sense
defacto they sometimes do themselves
right there on the road)
like all expensis involved with the rights of way of motor vehicules
we would like to see them payed for and maintained by the oil and
automotive industries themselves
just as othe forms of transportation must build and maintain theirs.
if you want to get ANYONE off the road they need to have legitimately
and adiquitely other forms of mobility.
and if which forms of mobility were to receive most public support
were to be based on their cost effectiveness alone, let alone
environmental factors, small to very small guideway based systems
built and maintained with off the shelf rather then purpose build components would be highly favored.
this in carlemnaria is what we have done.
rather then outlawing cars entirely we simply refuse to build roads
for them, to mass produce them in country or to encourage their importation.
to economicly coerce a majority of citizens into indenturing themselves
for an automobile and then deny what mobility this does generate
to whole classess of the populas, the old, the young, the physicly and mentaly challanged,
is clearly and unconscounably discriminatory.
replace those streets and roads with park strips with little narrowgauge alternative energy powered trains running down through the middle of them and you improve universaly mobility, environment AND quality of life!

and don't forget environmentaly enriched and enticing bike and pedestrian
pathways which are also safer and lower in public cost to build and
maintaing then vehicular roadways.

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I think that the ederly should get re-tested after 60, because I have witnessed elderley drivers that are a threat to myself and other drivers on the road. I think that they are a threat to national security. I know there are many good drivers over the age of 60 but the ones that aren't should not have their drivers license.

Actually if you look at the crashing rates, you'll see that the average person who crashes is a person around the ages 16-24. Just because a age group does a some crashes doesn't mean you should just make them re-do their driver's liscense. Let's just take away their rights to drive. he11 let's take away everyone's right to drive and just have buses drive everyone wherever their going. Then our biggest company... he11 corporation could be bus driving woot woot! No, I have a better idea let's just NOT do it. Leave the old people alone. If they crash GREAT that's one less social security check the gov. has to worry about.

Actually if you look at the crashing rates, you'll see that the average person who crashes is a person around the ages 16-24. Just because a age group does a some crashes doesn't mean you should just make them re-do their driver's liscense. Let's just take away their rights to drive. he11 let's take away everyone's right to drive and just have buses drive everyone wherever their going. Then our biggest company... he11 corporation could be bus driving woot woot! No, I have a better idea let's just NOT do it. Leave the old people alone. If they crash GREAT that's one less social security check the gov. has to worry about.

Lol, taking away the driving licence or being far more stern at them, for people at the age 18-24 might not be such an idea ;).

So, ye'd take away my wheels would ye, whippersnapper?
Why, I oughta run ye over!
(If I could only see ye a little clearer...) :P

Seriously, and OOC, I live out in the country 25 miles from work. I'm older but have never had a moving violation. I'm grateful for the freedom my license gives me.

I even manage to avoid all those jaywalking students, whose eyesight may be keen but whose mental acuity is questionable.