I am too terrified to ride a bike 20km to the next town. I could probably do a quarter of it on paths. Perhaps a bit more bush bashing. But the highway sections seems like certain death. I envy places that are connected with paths. Huge respect for this guy.

...i don't give a fuck if she's 82, that just means she shouldn't have been driving in the first place.

Oof, why did I laugh at this? 'Tis America, I guess?

Every time I visit the US, I travel by train and bus and bicycle and walking.

This is misinformation.

I have one chance a week, insanely early in the morning, to catch a buss for an eight hour trip that would take one by car to get to a hub

I know what's that like. I was carless for two years in a suburb that had an express bus into the city that you could catch one of two times in the morning and one of two times home in the afternoon. If I had to work overtime I had to beg coworkers for rides.

Being near the streetcar was a big part of why I moved where I did when I had the chance, but not everyone has that privilege these days. (And lucky me, my parents have been "borrowing" my car for two years.)

The only thing I like about Salina is their roller derby team.

I assume they have touring blades

She belongs in congress.

one sad thing is that, as american vehicles go, a 2013 Edge is not very offensive. sure, it's not a Corolla, but it's not a full size

it's a CUV with inoffensive tech. not too big, not too heavy, not too blinding or distracting. not that that saved the victim..

And if you suggest we should add public transit so that 82 year olds have a reasonable option other than driving, everyone acts like you’re ableist as if people whose disabilities make driving more dangerous don’t exist at all.

Yup, and in many states it's legal for blind people to own guns.

When I hear of people like this driver, it reminds me of the quote from Coming to America: "Imagine a country so free one can throw glass in its streets." It's meant as a joke in the movie, but for me, it's actually a really great way to describe our concept of freedom.

In America, you get at least on free kill with your vehicle. Age is rather irrelevant except she waited longer than others to claim her's.

If old people are going to be allowed to drive it should have to be smart cars or something, that way if they’re going to fuck around it will be them smeared 200m across the highway, not innocent victims

My own grandfather is a danger on the road. He's slowly losing his faculties, which is always tragic but doubly so because this was a deep intellectual. But trying to convince him that it's really time to stop driving has been... a challenge, shall we say. There's really only so much you can do in a legal sense.

We allow it for the very fact that without a vehicle an 80 year old person is essentially being given a death sentence in most cities in our country.

I am all for requirements of driver's license test be met past a certain age. But, we need to acknowledge that it's not just that. Seniors need alternative methods of transportation. They are driving because that's all they can do.

Whether this is basic public transportation or major expansion of senior specific door to door transport systems. We can't just "ban them". Because then the problem will just be a bunch of seniors just driving without a license or dying alone in their home because they didn't get their medication that day.

As someone who travels on two wheels in the US all the time, they kinda did.

Or even visit

There was a Spanish actor who biked from Spain to Rome as part of some doc and he got hit pretty badly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvojIfdmSR8

In France, obviously.