panhead
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I wasn't signaling out people with medical issues being the only ones needing periodic testing.
In my view, everybody needs periodic skills reassessed as that allows for a continual improvement in standards to be implemented (road rules, behavioural rules and actuall vehicel control skills).
If someones eyesight was an issue but was corrected with glasses or medication, then they shouldn't need skills & road rules re-testing until their normal scheduled time. Until then a stat dec from their medical practitioner should be enough for them to get back on the road.
I was actually agreeing with you and just pointing out what I know of two people close to me were required to do to have their licences reinstated and that was to have the Doctor okay their medical situation.
If they were a poor or good driver before the medical episode they would most likely still be a poor or good driver after they recovered.
Inattentiveness is the worst driving trait most people have and it's very difficult to teach that out of people in a driving school where the focus is on doing the things needed to past the test.
Retest people without warning and most would fail, retest people with warning and they'll brush up on what's needed to pass then go back to their old habits once they hit the road again.
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