In the interest of full disclosure, I should perhaps tell everyone that I just turned 75.

I believe I am a safer driver now than when I was in the 25-40 range. (I start that at 25 because that's when I learned to drive.)

My eyesight without glasses was lousy then, and it's lousy now. But I did and do have glasses that correct very well. I assume that my reactions are not as fast as in that period of my life; true enough. But my attitude toward driving is much more settled now than then, and I don't take some chances now that I did then. I don't drive as fast.   However, I'm not the kind of a slow driver you sometimes see in older drivers who makes problems by his slow speeds in traffic.

Whether this makes you think of me as a poster child for the no-older-drivers position or the opposite (which I adopt) is neither here nor there, because generalities are not ruled by particular cases. But I thought everyone was entitled to this look into the source and (in?)validity of my previous post.

Dave Oesterreich