To the editor: It’s nice that the state’s Division of Motor Automobiles has dropped the written tests for most drivers 70 and older. Though I’ve handed this take a look at each time, I discover that among the questions are phrased in such a means that every preposition can simply trick you into choosing the unsuitable reply.
However at 92 years previous, I haven’t taken a driving take a look at since I used to be a teen. I’m extraordinarily match and wholesome and imagine I can cross the take a look at anytime. I fully agree that there ought to be a driving take a look at for seniors over a sure age.
Sure, I’m conscious {that a} driving tester might be unfair to an older particular person. My spouse flunked her behind-the-wheel take a look at as a result of the tester mentioned she had poor expertise. For example, after stopping, she creeped into the crosswalk whereas ready for a pink gentle. She was additionally cited for not having the ability to see the rear tires of the automotive 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, often known 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 typically as everybody else, as a substitute of by no means.
Joan Walston, Santa Monica
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To the editor: I hope the DMV reaches out and affords amnesty to all the poor seniors who misplaced their licenses as a consequence of its misguided former requirement that drivers over 70 take a written take a look at 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 a proof for 2 indecipherable emails I obtained from them, I’m within the dreaded 60-day window, ready for the snail-mail “discover” to indicate up for my eye take a look at and photograph.
Oh, I additionally second Lopez’s concept that these two necessities be farmed out to my optometrist and a photographer of my selection.
Michael J. Harley, Laguna Niguel
