quit driving at what age

42 although I keep my driver's license up, own a car and am insured. I never liked to drive although I've liked riding in a car and especially going on road trips.
 
i always liked driving but lately i not interested in driving i will soon be 84
 

I''m 84 next month and gave up driving just a few months ago. I moved to be closer to children and did get new license OK. I feel I could probably do OK if I had to but I know my depth perception is not as it should be; nor are my reflexes. Decision making a little faulty/slow at times. Gave up night driving several years ago.
 
I hate driving! It isn't too bad for me to tool around locally, but I dread having to go out-of-town.

I do deliver meals-on-wheels where I can stay local. It forces me to get out and also run my car. An unused car wears out faster than one that is driven.
 
Like my mom, who quit driving when a lot of folks used their horn and fingers to give her directions. She knew then that it was time since she could not live with herself if she killed or hurt someone.
 
I hate city driving but I really, really like putting the pedal to the metal on the highway. Why I haven't received a speeding ticket in the last several years is beyond me.

I enjoy driving in the mountains, too; love those curvy roads. I think I must have been a grand prix driver in a previous life.

If the vision in my right eye keeps deteriorating at the rate it's going, though, my grand prix driving will be over....
 
At 63 I drive about 5,000 miles per year and could get by driving only about 1,000 miles per year.

I stay off the major highways and toll roads, don't drive at night and only drive when the roads are clear in the winter.

I probably will never stop driving cold turkey, I will try to keep my license current and a vehicle in the garage even if I don't drive it!

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I am 82 and I voluntarily gave it up the first week of December because of Peripheral Neuropathy in my right foot and having difficulty going from accelerator to brake. I sold my car for cash and cancelled my 3 A auto Insurance that I have had for 45 years.The good news is that with the cash from my car and the savings on auto insurance it will pay for all my UBER or LYFT rides until I am 100 years old.
This morning was my 78th Uber ride since the first of December. I STILL HAVE MY INDEPENDENCE.
 
Most of my driving is to fetch groceries, appointments with the sawbones, a run to the beach once in a while and about twice a year a drive across the state to see my sister on the Atlantic coast. I am only 83. My sister is 88 and still does local driving.
 
I'm not a big fan of driving; I never really have been, though I drove a lot in my younger days. I still drive as I need to, back and forth to shop, appointments, etc., and I transport my sister to most of her stuff, too. I'll drive as long as I can -- here where I live it's pretty much a necessity because things are so spread out and our public transportation is abysmal, at best.
 
70 1/2. Up until I retired this past February, I was driving 20,000 to 30,000 miles/year. Just returned from one trip where I drove 9 1/2 hours straight through... one potty stop and one fuel stop. Coming through a major metroplex on a Sunday morning, just faded into a line of about 6 vehicles running together. Kept seeing these 55 mph speed limit signs and looked down at the speedometer showing 84 mph. Love to drive and do not mind city traffic. Prefer to be out on mud roads in four wheel drive... or on snow covered areas in four wheel drive. But, I've driven since was old enough for my dad and granddad to stand me on the seat of a truck so I could steer it between the rows of hay bales.

Those who should give up their licenses are the folks who have vision issues, reaction issues, and/or do not have the ability/confidence to stay with the traffic flow. Even more important, those whose licenses should be taken away from them are the drivers of any age who text while driving, check their cell phone aps while driving, or have been involved in ANY personal injury accident while driving drunk.
 
All the seniors I talk to including me just hate driving at night. During the day is not too bad. But I don't like driving. It's a pain with all the traffic these days. Where I live you have to take a written drivers test when you reach 80 years of age to keep your license. If you had an accident you have to take a driver's test to renew your license. This is the province of Ontario law.

The concern is more for cognitive recognition. That's what the written test is all about. What it consists of is drawing a clock with all the numbers and the hands set at 10 after 11. And another test is picking out all the "h" in a series of jumbled sentences.

I have driven for 68 years and never had a ticket. But I can't tell you how many times I talked my way out of one. I guess the officers around here just can't stand to see a grown man cry.:sorrow:
 
I love to drive, but I'm not too fond of long drives, anymore. I used to think nothing of driving cross country for 14 hours at a stretch, but anymore 2 or 3 hours, or a couple hundred miles is about all I care to do....anything longer, and we take an airline flight. I get a thorough eye exam, yearly, and so long as I am physically able to drive safely, day or night, I would hate to give up that "independence". If I start to lose confidence in my ability to drive, that will be the major clue that it's time to sell out, and move to an urban area, close to everything.
 
I haven't reached that age yet...I'm just 81.

I bought a new 2012 Mazda3 in January 2012, and it has only recently logged 20,000 miles.

In 5-1/2 years, that's just over 3600 miles per year.

What a car...6-speed automatic and over 40MPG highway!

(When I divided 20,000 miles by 5.5 years, it came to 3636.363636, a Continued Fraction!)

​HiDesertHal
 
I'm 67 and now only drive around here locally. I drove in Atlanta traffic for nearly 40 years! I just could not stand to do that now. I like to take the "back roads" rather than the Interstate Highways anymore.
 

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