We all know that Senior citizens (old people) can be some of the slowest drivers around. On the local streets they drive lower then the 25 mile per hour speed limit, ride with their blinker on for blocks and then when they do actually turn, it’s an accident. They drive like they don’t have a care in the world or have to be anywhere anytime soon. If they have an appointment they probably leave 2 hours before so they won’t be late.
So, here is what I propose. You know the old carpool lanes that no one uses anymore, make them senior citizen lanes. They would be for senior drivers and for any other slow ass drivers for that matter. If you are not in a hurry and are going to be driving under the speed limit you must be driving in those lanes, by law. Her are some of my ideas. Giant padded bulldozer scoops on the guard rails of the highways and if they spot a slow driver they would deploy and knock the cars back into the slow lanes. I am sure no one would drive under the speed limit after that. Other ideas would be less drastic . A laser system that would shoot some kind of scanning device into your car and if you get pulled over a police officer can scan your car for slow driving violations. If you’re caught driving slow in any other lane, you will also get a ticket. Another idea would be cameras, like they have, at toll booths, for toll runners. You would get a summons in the mail and fined. If this happens three times you will have your license suspended. You would then need to take the driving test over again and get a note from your doctor, saying you are healthy enough to operate machinery. They do this in other states. It would probably alleviate traffic and who wants to be stuck driving behind a senior citizen anyway?
