At the Mobility Center, they put Morry through a battery of short exams, measuring his vision, strength, reflexes, and cognition. Sometimes you babble. Sometimes you're not coherent. Sometimes your legs don't work properly. Actually, says Wendy Stav who administers the test in Florida, just 5 percent of those tested are asked to stop driving.
Most older drivers pass with only minor issues.
And once that bill gets thrown out, there's no further discussion. This is the way that we maintain the connections with all those little activities that when you put them together we call life. And that transportation, that driving, is the glue that holds our life together. For Coughlin, tackling the issue of older drivers is a matter of widening the debate beyond whether seniors should be yanked off the roads. He says the U.S. is an aging country.