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Originally Posted by GoodLife
I would disagree with what I bolded above. In my experience, the worst cart and car drivers are impatient younger and most likely recent transplants from dog eat dog urban environments. The older folks seem to show more courtesy, obey stop signs, and are not in a hurry.
Older folks are old because they have successfully avoided traffic accidents and other forms of death.
If you read the online news, they usually report the ages of people involved in traffic accidents. There are plenty of them caused by younger drivers.
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No question wild young crazy, careless and intoxicated or doped up drivers should not be on the road and cause senseless carnage.
Yet I know of many elderly drivers who should have hung up their keys but kept on driving until they killed or maimed someone. Check the statistics. The very young and the very old drivers cause most accidents. Those in the middle who drive responsibly - the group I am touting - are the safest and best drivers.
p.s. Goodlife: I noticed your Porsche avatar. Are you a Porsche affectionado? I have owned a few. My last one was a Cayenne S. Porsche got it up to 180 mph on their Leipzig track. They put a governor to limit those they sold to 165 mph but they put a sticker on the dashboard of the one I bought warning me the tires were only good for 150 mph. All the Porsche’s drivers I know love to drive very fast! As you must be well aware Porsches really smooth out and get in the groove at high speeds but beat you to death over every crack, bump and irregularity in the road at low speeds.