The New Tool for Older Driver Safety: Brain Training Games. AAA Foundation CEO Explains

You have probably seen the U-shaped risk curve that shows how accident risks are very high among teenagers, then decrease and remain stable until our 60s, and then increase again.We have promoted initiatives such as DriverZED (see www.driverzed.org) to help teenagers better identify and manage the typical sources of risk, so they advance faster through the learning curve. For older adults who want to keep driving we need to ensure the right balance between the privilege of driving with the right of mobility - we know that losing one's ability to drive has negative consequences for the person.Q: Given aging population trends, it is clear we need to introduce better systems to balance those two goals you just outlined - safety and mobility. Do you think as a society we are prepared?A: I don't think we are, and I am pessimistic that we will be in the short term. This is a very important problem: official estimates say that the proportion of all drivers who are over 65 years of age will grow from 15% today to 25% in 2025.Let me explain the context: two years ago we put together a workshop to identify the state of the research and the state of the practice of driver safety among older adults. The main conclusion was that the current system of licensing is inadequate, inconsistent and does not reflect the research available. For example, age per se is not the most meaningful indicator of driver safety since different people inside the same age group may have different levels of cognitive ability that influence their driving fitness.The problem is that this is a very sensitive arena: the quality of the DMV is usually measured by wait times and ease to renew the license....so it is going to be tough for any politician to challenge this state of things and introduce serious initiatives based on better driving fitness screening and assessment tools.Some states like Maryland and California are leading innovation based on recent research; but it remains to be seen if their best practices will be adopted more widely.Q: Innovation will probably spread faster when presented as a preventive intervention to maintain driver fitness, such as what the AAA Foundation just announced with Posit Science.

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