Create better conditions for elderly drivers

THE report “Striving to stay on the road” (The Star, April 2) is worthy of note. In America about 85% of its senior citizens aged above 65 held driver’s licences and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration is mulling over issuing safety guidelines to senior drivers as well as classroom courses to sharpen their skills.

In Malaysia too, the senior-citizen population, especially those over 60 years, is on the rise and a great many of them, particularly those in the urban and sub-urban areas, own motor vehicles for their daily use.