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- From: sharen@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Sharen A. Rund)
- Subject: Re: elderly drivers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.212937.18239@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Organization: Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
- References: <1993Jan20.104838.15163@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <1993Jan21.181555.19554@newsgate.sps.mot.com> <1993Jan26.134714.1@mscf.med.upenn.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 21:29:37 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.134714.1@mscf.med.upenn.edu> byrd@mscf.med.upenn.edu writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.181555.19554@newsgate.sps.mot.com>, mark@wdcwdc.sps.mot.com (Mark Shaw) writes:
- >
- >[some deleted]
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- >> What the general public needs to come to grips with is that making it possible for
- >> an elderly driver to still drive to the grocery on their own is not really doing
- >> them a service. With the cost of owning a car going up each year, the real
- >> solution should be to find ways to give the elderly the same mobility at a reduced
- >> cost with more safety.
- >>
- >> But as long as the public has this pre-occupation with driving a car as being some
- >> sort of test of manhood or personal worth, I doubt if anything can be done to improve
- >> the situation.
- >
- >Interestingly no one has brought up the possibility that it
- >will get much worse, before it gets better, as baby boomers age.
-
- it may or may not, because it seems that as baby boomers reach certain
- ages, things that were not before are, for instance: audi's were always a
- nice dependable car that you could walk into a dealership and work with the
- salesman until you both agreed on a price that was fair to both - when's
- the last time audi sold their cars for less than show room price??; sweats
- were always pushed to the back of the store until they became a 'big' thing,
- now guess what's not only in prime sales places but also big money makers???;
- brie & smoked salmon was always something special for special occassions,
- guess what's become every day almost??? there aren't very many public benches
- and resting places around for an elderly person or anyone, for that matter, to
- stop & rest a while - I expect that as baby boomers start reaching the
- age they'll need to sit down, benches will start appearing....B-)
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