Do you still drive? Age?

At 67 I don't drive very often anymore. I sold my van in 2008 and have never missed it. It sat for a year in my driveway and cost me $850 for insurance, and $1000 to get it in condition to sell. I rent a car if I have to leave town, and walk, taxi, or bus in town and still don't spend that much money every year. I spent 20 years of my working life as a truck driver, and have driven well over a million miles, driving isn't something I feel the need to do.
 
Yes - sort of - after being used to driving in rural NH where a traffic jam means there's a moose or some geese in the road, driving in the Tampa metropolitan area was absolute culture shock! But I'm getting used to it, though I only drive short, familiar routes by myself, like picking the kids up at school. It's so easy to get lost if you don't knw exactly where you're going.
 
treeguy64 said:
Hmm....I was going to get into specifics concerning myself and driving, but then I thought about it, and decided not to.

In truth, everyone in here needs to consider who will dig up any and all info you may post about yourself, online. In the event of an accident, your posts may come back to bite you in the butt, in court, someday.
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You're right. My son-in-law is retired from the police force (imagine retiring at age 42!) and now works in cybersecurity and he tells us the same thing. He says that investigators of all kinds find social media, forums, etc. to be a goldmine of information.
 
Oh yeah, 62 and do drive.

While I owned a 1998 Dodge, my eyes weren't seeing to well. So it (brain died) died and I got a chevy express. But the lights didn't please me.

So, I got those halogen bulbs. OMG! I could see everything! It wasn't my eyes, it was the bulbs! Now they burned out, but I'll buy some new one soon.
 
Still driving at 82 and I am as comfortable doing it as I was at 30. My only car to car accident was a minor scrape at 18. Since then I‘ve been rear ended several times, but that’s it. My best lesson in driving was in Canada many years ago. Very courteous drivers. Everything an American driver should be, but often is not.
 
I had to have a non-road 'refresher test' this September prior to the license expiring on my 80th birthday......henceforth every two years to renew again, or not.

Having driven for 7+ years in Riyadh, I told my supervisor, vis-a-vis the possible question "How much space do you leave the car in front of you?", that having driven there, nobody gets in front of me - she discouraged me from making that response....just as well perhaps.

(As an aside....having spent my 21st birthday in Ceylon/Sri Lanka, my late wife & I went there when I was 42. We rented a car. Encountered an Australian family with car & driver - Oz says "Are you driving yourselves? You must be game" - had their driver not been standing next to him I might have replied "Game is getting in a car with a guy from here driving".

Although, after subsequently riding in a shuttle in Romania, I might have changed my opinion......slightly.)
 
I drive around town, around the county, around to other states, anywhere I think I might like to go. I have driven since I was 16, and am a very good driver! I prefer driving to being a passenger in the car if I travel with a friend.
I have no intention of giving it up, as I've just bought a brand new 2022 Crosstrek and expect to hang onto it for another several years.
 
About to turn 80, and I still drive. However I think 2023 will be my last year of owning a car, and driving.

Cannot figure out when the time will come as I live alone, and it will cause problems, but I think it's coming.
... I have a granddaughter in high school waiting to take over my car 😁 .. don't know how she feels about Driving Miss Daisy ....
 
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I still drive at 71. But I have rarely done so lately, because Dave did all the driving since we both retired. Until…he hasn’t been able to drive since late October so I’m now the driver. My gawd, I didn’t realize how rusty I’d become! Couldn’t park well, hit the curb a few times, got the heebie jeebies on the ginormous fly-overs! After a couple weeks, I’ve gotten back into practice and I feel like my old self. Just in time for Dave to get back behind the wheel. I’ve promised myself I’ll drive more often, just to keep in practice.
 
@81 Still driving & enjoying the challenge. Recent road trip early in the morning to Kingman Az. took rt93. Going south traffic doing nicely at 75mph. Coming back must have been when people were in a bit of a rush. Staying with the flow meant 90mph to 100mph.
 
I still drive, as I do work 2nd shift. Hate driving at night, but it isn't my bad driving at all. I run a little over the speed limit sometimes and I keep up.
What bugs the crap out of me are people who follow waaaaaayyy to closely and silhouette me. It's awful, unsafe and scary.
 
I was first licensed here in Ontario in 1964, so in 2022 I have been driving SAFELY for 56 years including ten years driving an Ambulance in the largest city in Canada in all types of weather. In that business you can't say "the weather is too bad we are not coming ". I have never had to fill out an accident report, I HAVE had people hit ME a number of times. I will drive anywhere at any time. At 76 I trust my abilities. JImB.
 
I'm 71 n' blithering fed up with driving! Coincidentally, they recently discovered I shouldn't be driving no more anyways, n' ergo, they suspended my license. Good riddance to it, I say I say! Just as well, cuz I prob'ly would've backed over some pedestrian in a parking lot by now! Seems to me, absolutely NOBODY watches where they're walking in them aforementioned parking lots these days, pushing their shopping carts with tunnel vision, looking either for where the hell they parked their car, or down at their iPhones!!
 

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