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Originally Posted by manaboutown
I agree with this assessment. It applies to adjusting to driving in any new community during each season. As to how good a golf cart driver one becomes...I doubt it has anything whatsoever to do with home ownership other than perhaps driving responsibly as insurers know all too well. Probably the younger drivers who have driven a lot of accident free miles over the years after a year in TV will be the best. Eyesight (cataracts, macular degeneration, glaucoma...) physical strength and endurance, reaction time, the effect of medications (legal & illegal), an affliction such as Parkinson’s disease and possibly dementia all play a role. After a time even a home owning long time resident of TV ought to hang up his/her golf cart keys as well as the car keys.
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When you have money invested in a community such as owning property, and an emotional attachment to an area such as it being your primary home, it is different than when you go visit an area on vacation.
Some people are responsible all of the time and in all situations and some....well...... What happens in The Villages, stays in the Villages. So they throw their beer can and pizza box out along the cart path that we take such pride in. Who is going to know who you are if you tailgate or are sloppy parking? There are far more young....and old drunks than people impaired by age who drive. Most people have enough character that they would not endanger their lives or others by driving with less than accurate perception.