The special problems those drivers might present, he said, was brought to the nation's attention when an 86-year-old man plowed his Buick through a farmers market in Santa Monica, Calif., in July, killing 10 people and injuring 63.Īs long ago as the 1980s, you could see bumper stickers in Florida that demanded grandma's car keys be confiscated to protect other drivers and pedestrians. "You look at the aging going on, the changing demographics in the population, and you realize there are going to be more older drivers on the road in the decades to come," the AAA spokesman said. And vision, he said, is one of the easiest things to test. Like the tightening of driving laws for teens that occurred in the 1990s, however, McNaull said the United States might have reached a juncture where special requirements for seniors are seen as necessary or desirable.
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