The Cincinnati Enquirer Drivers can't be steered off the road just because they're old.
Age discrimination is against the law.
But researchers are developing driver's tests that will target drivers whose visual, cognitive and physical impairments put them at risk of causing crashes. And if states make it part of their licensing procedure, it will weed out older high-risk drivers. If these functional skills tests had been in place five years ago, Mardee Sherman's job would have been easier. He often didn't remember where he was. He refused to stop driving, and her mother felt so guilty about his condition that she allowed him to continue.