I just watched a police documentary show -- not to mention any names -- and the officer being filmed rolled up on an all-too-common situation that involved an elderly person, a car, and their indifference to the potential accident threat that they posed.

This particular old woman had driven about 30 feet up some railroad tracks and had gotten her car stuck on top of the rails. When asked what had happened, she said she didn't know.

Now I ask you, does this person really need to be behind the wheel ever again?

My grandmother -- great woman and at 83 she is still as full of life as ever -- attempted to learn to drive a few years ago after her husband died. Long story short, she drove the car from a gas station at full speed across 6 lanes of traffic, survived, and crashed into some parked cars in the car lot across the street, thus ending her driving career -- oh, and she only had a permit at the time.

My grandfather, before he died, couldn't see for crap towards the end of his career, and it even got to the point to where he scared himself driving. I was with them once when he thought he was on the road but instead he was headed for the woods across a gravel parking lot/construction area.

Now, at 23, I drive like a crazy man on the highway, but I believe I am fully in control of the car -- with the exception of events that are out of my control such as glass or nails on the road, or a hopeful deer. But as for elderly people, whose reactions have delayed, whose sight has faded, whose memory is getting duller -- they should not be allowed to renew their driver's licenses.

But, keeping in mind that (God willing) you're going to be that age one day, what age should it be revoked?