Elderly Drivers In Japan Could Be Limited To Vehicles With Automatic Braking (japantimes.co.jp)

AmiMoJo writes: Japan's National Police Agency has proposed several new rules to regulate elderly drivers, including limiting them to vehicles with automatic braking systems to increase public safety. "The panel was tasked with finding ways to mitigate the risks associated with dementia, poor vision and deteriorating physical strength associated with seniors," reports the Japan Times. "Deadly traffic accidents caused by people 75 or older are on the rise, though fatal accidents overall are on the decline." Automatic braking systems apply the car's brakes if a collision is imminent. Separately Japanese authorities are offering elderly drivers who give up their licenses a discount on their funerals.

Comments

Wrong Direction

[AlanObject]

Why not mandate this for all vehicles?

Are we trying to preserve the right for a privileged demographic to crash into things?

Re:if they are such a public danger

[Anonymice]

They're not fucking economic "migrants", they're refugees. People spoke in the same way about the fleeing Jews in the 1930's and 40's, and history has shown it to to be nothing more than nationalist xenophobia and racism.

Re:if they are such a public danger

[Anonymous Coward]

"...revoke a necessary freedom for it's citizens..."

This statement reveals a deep misunderstanding of the writer, and his countrymen, who no doubt is a US citizen. ...Cause its in the constitution that everyone has the inalienable right to happiness..., which in the US means to buy and drive however, and whatever, without any meaningful schooling and training.
I would be willing to bet a lot of money that 99.99999999999% of US drivers would never pass a typical drivers license test, in English, in any EU country.
The US simply has no fucking clue about what a good drivers education would entail. It would cost money, of course, like a pilots license, but it would save massive amounts of lives, reduce collisions, accidents, lower insurance costs, extend the average life of cars, reduce time in traffic.
The upside to this ignorance is of course the massive amount of capital flowing into the pockets of insurance companies, auto makers, repair-shops, funeral homes, hospitals, doctors, lawyers, police forces and so on, because this misery is an industry, and people don't fucking know it.
Put that in a pipe and fucking smoke it.

   

Re:if they are such a public danger

[peragrin]

Obama deported more people than bush did. Deportions went up drastically. And actually have dropped under trump(primarily because he can't hire people).

And trump also wants to ban immigrants who want to setup new businesses in the USA. That ban is worded that way as the blanket ban he tried was rejected. Do not forget the current ban is attempt number two. He wants a full on ban.

Also the majority of terrorists are Saudi in origin yet Saudi Arabia is not on the list. I suggest you lookup the makeup of the 9/11 terrorists.

Also we do enforce all the immigration laws. See Obama deporting millions and bush and Reagan doing the immigration pardons.

Republicans complete hypocrites

As for Chinese connections there is a difference from buying products in China and shipping them ala Apple, dell, etc and using the laws to get rich Chinese green cards for buying a condo that is yet to be built.