Not sure why you are getting downvoted, they must have a vision of 77 being a crumbling old man, but out in Vancouver I see people in their 70s doing mountain hikes and jogging, and have their full faculties. There should be testing across the board as we age, but age shouldn't have be a cutoff for license.
My great uncle gave me a ride home once, he was 95, he was 100% with it mentally, and handling the manual transmission like a champ. He was a great driver.
My grandmother was still driving a car at 98. She should definitely have been stopped years earlier.
I'm fully in support of requiring older drivers to retake a driving test if they are safe drivers then there is no problem but we need to identify the unsafe ones dementia and Alzheimer's can hit it anytime. My Grandfather died in his 60s of what was probably Alzheimer's.
"In addition to the injured cyclist, the driver of the Kia Soul and six other cyclists were also transported to the hospital, with three of the cyclists classified as trauma alerts, [...]"
Everyone should have to retest for their driving license every 5 years. I let mine lapse during COVID and had to retest, it wasn’t a pain, I learned some stuff I had forgotten, and moved on. It would filter out a large portion of the population who shouldn’t still be allowed to drive. It’s a skill that fades and rules change, especially over a persons lifetime
I've driven in about 12 countries and 20 states in the US. Between the elderly who refuse to stop driving, the people driving on substances, and the general unfriendliness of the drivers in Florida - it is, by far, the worst place I've ever driven. I'm a cyclist as well and you couldn't pay me to ride there. It's dangerous enough to drive there, let alone cycle. *Mumbai would be another runner up to terrible places to ride.
For a lot of people including me not driving in not an option. Everything is a few miles away in between parking lots of other people living in the same dilemma.
This compounds as you're older and have to go places for doctor appts. Or groceries: nothing is walking distance and the cycle grows as people move farther away for cheaper land.
When I ride the bike people tell me to be careful but when they drive I can see them eyes on screen like if they're on their living room couch.