To the editor: It’s nice that the state’s Division of Motor Autos has dropped the written assessments for many drivers 70 and older. Though I’ve handed this check each time, I discover that a few of the questions are phrased in such a manner that every preposition can simply trick you into deciding on the unsuitable reply.
However at 92 years previous, I haven’t taken a driving check since I used to be a teen. I’m extraordinarily match and wholesome and consider I can cross the check anytime. I utterly agree that there ought to be a driving check for seniors over a sure age.
Sure, I’m conscious {that a} driving tester might be unfair to an older individual. My spouse flunked her behind-the-wheel check as a result of the tester stated she had poor abilities. As an example, after stopping, she creeped into the crosswalk whereas ready for a purple gentle. She was additionally cited for not with the ability to see the rear tires of the automobile in entrance of her contact the bottom.
I problem anyone to seek out this rule within the DMV handbook.
Dave Simon, North Hollywood
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To the editor: I don’t know whether or not to be relieved or terrified.
Relieved, as a result of I’ll most likely by no means once more want to indicate up in Dante’s ninth circle of hell, also referred to as my native DMV; or terrified, as a result of the geriatric, entitled phase of the inhabitants to which I belong is being let free to do presumably untold injury.
Drivers over 70, with our impaired listening to, sight and reflexes (as Steve Lopez factors out), to say nothing of the opposite ills that include being senior residents, ought to be examined twice as usually as everybody else, as an alternative of by no means.
Joan Walston, Santa Monica
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To the editor: I hope the DMV reaches out and gives amnesty to all the poor seniors who misplaced their licenses attributable to its misguided former requirement that drivers over 70 take a written check when renewing.
Patricia Garcia, Upland
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To the editor: Because of Lopez for exposing the incompetence of the DMV. I second his movement to get again the $45 in renewal charges that I donated to those buffoons.
So now, after two visits to the San Clemente DMV to get an evidence for 2 indecipherable emails I acquired from them, I’m within the dreaded 60-day window, ready for the snail-mail “discover” to indicate up for my eye check and photograph.
Oh, I additionally second Lopez’s concept that these two necessities be farmed out to my optometrist and a photographer of my alternative.
Michael J. Harley, Laguna Niguel
