Gimme my license!
My favorite quote along those lines:
I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandpa, not yelling and screaming like the people in his car at the time...
Posted on 12/08/2013 4:57:16 PM PST by knak
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says it will work to change its strategic plan to ensure the safety of the U.S.’s growing population of older drivers and passengers.
In a statement released earlier this week, the NHTSA says its changes are the result of the growing population of elderly drivers. The agency says it will make a number of changes, including researching a number of advanced vehicle technologies including vehicle-to-vehicle communications, refining its data collection systems, and shifting its focus to efforts on public education and identifying functional changes including vision, strength, flexibility and cognition.
“NHTSA’s Older Driver Highway Safety Program Guidelines are based on best practices around the country and include countermeasures that can be implemented to ensure the safety of older drivers, including at-risk drivers,” the agency said in a statement. “The guidelines encourage state highway safety offices to work closely with driver license officials, state departments of transportation, medical providers and aging services providers, among others.”
The agency was careful to note that the changes are not the result of any changes in how the elderly are driving, but rather the result of a changing environment and a better, more complete understanding of safety practices.
“Although older drivers are some of the safest drivers on our roads, our plan builds upon the NHTSA’s current work to help older people drive as safely and as long as possible,” said NHTSA Administrator David Strickland.
get yer mitts off state’s rights you filthy feds
Money tossed in the trash.
No business of the federal gov’t. This is up to the states
Profiling is ok when president Snowbama does it.
HopefUlly AARP hears about this and Obama is toast.
-PJ
my biology professor said a monkey could get a dl so I would trust many old people. they don’t drive fast.
Obama is not just a Marxist Muslim. He is also a black racist. He perceives most elderly Americans as racist white people. Being a racist himself he sees racism everywhere. He feels by wiping out elderly white people he will have less opposition to his social agenda.
Look at Opera Winfrey or even white radicals like Chris Matthews who view ANY criticism of Obama or his policies as racist. Its hard to believe the idol they adore thinks any differently than they do.
He is a black racist Muslim Marxist.
Until its implementation is coerced from the states by linking it to federal highway $$$, just like the 70's nationwide 55mph, the nationwide 0.08 BAC for DUI, and the nationwide drinking age of 21.
After watching this video, I don't think I want a new diesel pickup... After sharing with my dad, he is ready to dump all of his shares in Ford... and in the end I think I will just rebuild my 1991 Jetta diesel that has 319k on it.
Can I just get a vehicle with crank-down windows please?
>> Sounds like more invasions of privacy coming.
Commie agenda for mass transport and consolidation of the citizens’ habitat.
Daddy bought a Lincoln Town car new and totalled it when it was maybe 8 years old.
I took him to a large dealer and he picked out a used one, the same year and same color. He paid a little too much but he was going to buy it no matter what I told him.
Some old pharts drive across state lines on federally funded roads.
Those that don't, could...
That nails it. It’s an issue, and it’s none of the FedGov’s business from a regulatory or legislation standpoint. Or shouldn’t be.
>>Can I just get a vehicle with crank-down windows please?<<
Buy it in Mexico. Manual transmissions, crank-down windows, manual locks, AM only radio. New cars are just like in 1969.
Seriously.
So, in addition to fixing our economy and our health care system, he is now moving to prevent elderly people from running their cars into liquor stores and 7-11s. Cover your heads.
Ah, remembering the good old days when one used the hood ornament to aim at the line on the shoulder of the interstate to keep from swerving too much when you were sh!tfaced... Don Draper shoulda done that.
All the big manufacturers do indeed offer stripped work pickups with crank windows, though one might be hard to find.
Gimme my license!
My favorite quote along those lines:
I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandpa, not yelling and screaming like the people in his car at the time...
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