Advancing age alone is not a sign that it's time for a driver to give up the keys.
It follows that in 2015, the Centers for Disease Control logged more than 40 million U.S. drivers age 65 and older. That reflected a 50% increase over the previous data pool collected in 1999 — an upward trend that's likely to continue as the U.S. population of adults age 70 and older is projected to increase from 31.7 million in 2015 to 53.7 million in 2030, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Most government agencies recognize that being able to drive supports an older adult's ability to remain self-sufficient, which is one reason why states have avoided putting laws on the books that would require individuals to age out of their driver's license.
|Teenagers cause most U.S. crashes
Driving research does support the idea that there are very real dangers when any potentially unfit driver, regardless of age, refuses to give up the keys.
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