"This is pure age discrimination. They cannot provide any evidence or figures to show that drivers aged 70 and over would be more often involved in accidents."

The European Union wants elderly people (70+) to undergo medical tests from now on to prove that they are still capable of driving a car every five years. However, the proposal has been met with a lot of criticism.

    • smokeythebear@lemmy.worldEnglish
      212·
      1 year ago

      I’ve seen many driving professionals. The vast vast majority have substantially better driving behavior per km traveled. Again well supported by data.

      Similarly, the regressive nature of increasing barriers to driving is well understood. This can be easily shown by looking at the effects of drivers license prohibitions on undocumented immigrants. Again, there is data.

      Your point about offsetting costs is ignorant to history. A tried and true approach to “starve the beast” is breaking something now and promising to fix it later. The fixes never come, the costs

      It seems like you are someone easily swayed by anecdotes over actual evidence. That’s a really bad way to make policy decisions.

      • Nobsi@feddit.deEnglish
        101·
        1 year ago

        You claim to have data, but all you are arguing on is anecdotes. Then you talk about people being swayed by anecdotes. Ironic.