Tag: seniors
18 Posts

Sep 01, 2001
We continue to get mail about testing senior drivers...
by mail about whether older drivers should be tested to make sure they still have the vision judgment and physical abilities necessary to drive a car Most of the mail has supported our position that testing after a certain age...

Sep 01, 2001
Testing older drivers discriminatory? A few readers think so.
few more responses to our column on testing older drivers for a decline in skills There was a certain percentage of our respondents who were not opposed to testing but were opposed to singling out older drivers Dear Tom Ray...

Aug 01, 2001
Readers weigh in on our proposal to test senior drivers for safety.
more thoughts from our readers on the column we wrote about senior drivers We called for some sort of testing to weed out folks whose reflexes have deteriorated to the point where they can no longer safely operate a car...

Aug 01, 2001
More reader comments about our proposal to test senior drivers.
wrote a few weeks back about the need to test older drivers for competence generated hundreds of letters Surprisingly to us most of them supported our position -- although some did not RAY And a few of those were unprintable...

Jul 01, 2001
Tom and Ray propose ongoing testing for senior drivers.
Recently you answered a question from Heidi whose -year-old mother had developed physical problems that kept her from driving a manual transmission Your advice to trade for a similar car with an automatic transmission made sound financial and mechanical sense...

May 01, 1993
Should I be looking at new cars before retirement?
I enjoy all your columns and value your opinions but the articles that really grab my attention are the ones that concern older cars I a single self-supporting lady fast approaching retirement am the original owner of a Ford Escort...

May 01, 1993
Hoping to avoid having to buy a new car in my 80s.
I enjoy your column very much To my amazement so does my wonderful mother-in-law who is Recently she and I were talking about her car It's a one owner year old Chevy Citation with about miles on it It has...

May 01, 1991
Rather than dumping the car, why not refuzz the dice?
First of all thank you for the knowledge you have given me and also the laughter you have added to my life My husband and I are in our seventies We have been thinking of buying a car Would we...