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The European Union wants elderly people (70+) to undergo medical tests from now on to prove that they are still capable of driving a car every five years. However, the proposal has been met with a lot of criticism.

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[–] 1draw4u@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago
[–] stergro@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

I am for it, but I hope they'll make these tests simple, short and low level. We really only want to remove the ones that a re obviously incapable of driving.

[–] doctron@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is there evidence that elder people cause more accidents than younger? I only find opposite data, e.g. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37292951

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[–] ChrisFhey@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

To be fair, there’s also a large quantity of younger drivers that would benefit from this idea. You see some weird things happen in traffic sometimes, and bad driving skills are not exclusive to the elderly.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Finally some EU law that makes sense.

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