Driving Safely While Aging Gracefully is an assessment tool to help you assess whether physical changes are affecting your driving skills. It starts with some of the physical effects of aging, as well as tips on coping with them so you can remain a safe driver for as dong as you can.
Vision, Physical Fitness, and Reaction Time are addressed. Self awareness is the key but be mindful of things that might have happened to you.
For example:
• A friend or family member has expressed concern about your driving
• You sometimes get lost while driving on familiar routes
• You’ve been pulled over by a police officer and warned about you poor driving – even if you didn’t get a ticket
• You have had several moving violations, near misses or actual crashes in the last three years
• Your doctor or health care provider has advised you to restrict of stop driving.
Click here to visit the NHTSA website for additional information and links.
