It's definitely one of those big questions as we get older: "When Should I Stop Driving?"
And what seems on the surface like an important but fairly innocuous question quickly takes on a lot more depth and impact, when we stop and consider just how much driving can be integral to our identity, our confidence, our lifestyle and most of all, our freedom.
But it's something that we simply can't expect to do forever, which means there will come a point when you have to hang 'em up. Do we therefore make that decision on our own initiative, or wait until someone makes it for us?
To be fair, you can make valid arguments for both cases. But for today at least we're going to discuss the various considerations and impacts of not being able to drive anymore, and to do so, why not have some fun and look a little further afield: beyond Florida, beyond the United States, beyond North America and even the Western Hemisphere: let's go to Australia!
They may drive on the left and use kilometres, but they still have the exact same concerns about the safety of drivers as we do! Peter Flanders is a retired police officer in Queensland who witnessed first-hand the importance of knowing when to stop driving, and Kayla Stefanidis is a researcher who backs everything up with the data to help us out.
Yes, it's a serious subject, but we approach it with a clear head and even a few laughs: as ever with the goal of getting you prepared for important decisions such as this.
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