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- From: byrd@mscf.med.upenn.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: elderly drivers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.134714.1@mscf.med.upenn.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 18:47:14 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.181555.19554@newsgate.sps.mot.com>, mark@wdcwdc.sps.mot.com (Mark Shaw) writes:
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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.
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- Interestingly no one has brought up the possibility that it
- will get much worse, before it gets better, as baby boomers age.
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- Karen Byrd, VAX Sys. Manager
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