Seniors, Do You Drive? Take the poll!

Do you drive?

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SeaBreeze

SeaBreeze

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I still drive in my 60s and plan to keep driving for as long as I'm healthy enough to. Do you drive? Have you stopped driving at some point in your senior years? Are you someone who never drove in their life? Please take the poll! :drive:
 

I do not drive nearly as much as before I retired. Sometimes a couple times a week. I try to combine errands. Of course, I am not counting the weekends when I go out with my husband and he drives. I do not like driving at night at all.
 

Yes, I drive. Although I really don't enjoy it anymore. It's a necessary evil. The longest drive I have is about 160 miles one way to my daughter's house. I do that about once or twice a month.

Other than that it's a few miles every day.
 
I am a nervous driver and don't enjoy it at all. I only drive to run errands around town which is only about ten miles away. Even then weeks can go by before I need to go to town.. The hubby does the bulk of the driving such as when we visit my daughter and family in VA two or three times a year. He is a good driver and loves to get behind the wheel.
 
I drive about 5,000 miles per year, mostly for recreation.

I could get by with about 1,000 miles per year.

I do not drive much at night, in the snow, on the interstates and toll roads, etc...
 
My goal has been to stop driving at 60. Or when my father passes and I am not driving 6 hours round trip every two weeks. It will not be hard for me as I bike everywhere now. Father is 89 and had me take him to get his renewal, I was so bothered that he was given it.
 
Aunt Bea said:
I drive about 5,000 miles per year, mostly for recreation.

I could get by with about 1,000 miles per year.

I do not drive much at night, in the snow, on the interstates and toll roads, etc...
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I don't drive at night if I can avoid it. I don't drive in snow because we don't have any but do drive in our killer fog in the winter.

I also don't mind the interstates and don't have any toll roads except the one on the bay bridge in San Francisco...that was scary! I had to drive 4 hrs and across the Bay Bridge in pouring rain to pick up my husband from the hospital there.

This was my first trip from Fresno and I didn't have GPS. The night before I kept studying the directions as if I was cramming for an exam. It's still very fresh in my mind and this was in 2003!
 
In my early 60s and I still drive whenever there's a need, or just a desire to get out. This past summer I took a long trip by car down to MD by myself. It was great to get out on the road, listening to music the entire way.

Hate driving at night in the rain. Don't like driving in snow. Won't drive if there's a hint of freezing rain.
 
CeeCee said:
Yes, I drive. Although I really don't enjoy it anymore. It's a necessary evil. The longest drive I have is about 160 miles one way to my daughter's house. I do that about once or twice a month.

Other than that it's a few miles every day.
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I took UBER Sunday afternoon to go and get a much needed haircut at GREAT CLIPS ----THE COST?? $6.00 to UBER and $12.00 for the haircut. That $18.00 is less than half of what I would have paid for a pre retirement haircut.
 
I don't love to drive, when we go on long trips in the truck (3/4 ton Dodge Ram Cummins diesel with pop-up camper), my husband does most or all of the driving. He's an excellent and confident driver with very good sense of direction.....me, not so much. :eek:
 
My haircut is only $9.
My wife has not driven for 4 years because she doesn't feel safe with all the meds she takes.
In my working years I drove about 40,000 miles a year, now it is about 4,000 a year. Our 2012 car has only 20,000 miles on it. It may outlast me.
 
Manatee, kudos to your wife for knowing her limitations and acting accordingly. Best to play it safe.

There are so many people driving who shouldn't. Makes me shudder.
 
Until the last couple of years I rode a motorcycle - everywhere, but my 80th birthday was last Dec. so I decided it was time. In '14 I bought myself a little Smart car (which I luv) and drive instead of ride. I take TKD, Tai Chi, drawing and horseback riding lessons - all of which I have to drive to. Unfortunately, I have been recently diagnosed with macular degeneration. so passing the eye test for my license in 2 years in in doubt. Don't know what I'll do then. I know I have to give up driving sometime in the future, but I just hate the lack of independence losing my license entails.
 
I'm a good driver except nighttime gets a little sketchy. I come unglued when I get lost at night on country roads....just happened last weekend on a road trip but thankfully I wasn't alone. GPS failed me, as it sometimes does.
 
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I do still drive but not as much. Not because I am deliberately cutting back as I get older, I simply dont need to. I tend to cycle short distances, but will drive at the weekends and holiday periods. I suppose as I get older, I am less likely to drive very fast and am more cautious.
 
I got a new car this year, a Suburu with all the safety bells and whistles. I love those features; the car nearly drives itself! I feel a lot safer in it than I did in my 18-year-old Toyota.

One feature is that if I'm about to crash into something, the car issues a warning and then stops itself. I hope I never have to try that one out! But I do use the backup camera a lot, and the "blind spot" warnings on the side mirrors.

When I'm stopped for a red light, when the car in front of me starts to move forward, I get a "wake up" beep. I wish more drivers had that feature!
 
I will keep driving as long as I can afford new vehicles with all of the bells and whistles to protect me and others with whom I share the road. My next vehicle will have the crash avoidance/auto braking system, lane change/blind spot warning system. I now have back-up warning, front and rear cameras. When/if I can't afford to have the most up to date safety features available, I will stop driving.
 
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