"This is pure age discrimination. They cannot provide any evidence or figures to show that drivers aged 70 and over would be more often involved in accidents."

The European Union wants elderly people (70+) to undergo medical tests from now on to prove that they are still capable of driving a car every five years. However, the proposal has been met with a lot of criticism.

  • ElmarsonTheThird@feddit.deEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    The german satire party DIE PARTEI wanted to implement a highest voting age. If you can’t vote the first 18 years of your life, you shouldn’t be able to vote the final 18 years.

    • Simbomba@feddit.deEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I seriously hoped it would have been implemented The older folks seem to ruin germany more the older they get

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been saying the same thing for years. We should revoke voting status 18y from whatever the national average lifespan. That’ll never happen, though.

      • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        At 19. You vote at 18 or not at all. Let’s see just how chaotic we can make this world.

      • nudny ekscentryk@szmer.infoEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Well insurance companies have all the models necessary for that. It’s actually called actuary and it’s a field of mathematics.

        Or, average national lifespan

          • brainrein@feddit.deEnglish
            18·
            1 year ago

            That is true. We like the Monty Pythons more than anyone else does, we adore them! But we would never diminish this feeling by laughing about their jokes. Instead we do argue for hours about the philosophical implications of a silly walk.

            • Akasazh@feddit.nlEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Yeah, with a philosopher like Beckenbauer that’s exactly what I’d suspect.

              However the efficiency of the killing joke does make one wonder how the primordial laughter gets unlocked. Alas, we’ll never know.