Will CanDRIVE limit the rights and freedom of older drivers?
The philosophy of CanDRIVE is to enhance the driving ability and protect the driving privileges of safe drivers. The best way of protecting these driving privileges is to minimize the number of car crashes involving drivers who are medically unfit to drive, minimizing the negative publicity that these unfortunate events create. This can be done in two complementary ways:[1] by identifying drivers with early evidence of increasing risk who can benefit from retraining or de-graduated licensing and directing them to such programs and[2] by identifying those unfortunate few who have medical and functional impairments that preclude them from safe driving and helping them obtain alternate means of transportation. These two approaches will minimize the number of avoidable car crashes involving older drivers, will decrease the frequency with which such tragic events appear in the news and therefore will help protect the driving privileges of the majority of safe older drivers.
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