Why can't old people drive better?

I don't get it. If practice makes perfect, then old people should be the best drivers in the world. Think about it, in some cases they were around for the advent of mass produced cars. That's before seat belts, airbags, pavement in most areas, drinking and driving laws, and a bunch of other safety features we take for granted. When you put it in that context, the crazy drivers would have eliminated themselves long ago, leaving the better drivers to breed a race of super drivers. 

Weird how that didn't work. 

There must be some kind of threshold where the old folks' driving abilities deteriorate. I'm completely in favor of rigid driving tests on a bi-annual basis. That would weed out the old people who tend to slam on the gas thinking it's the brake while driving into a crowd, the punk kids that don't care about anything on the road (damn punk kids), rice-burner racers, and most of the people that cause traffic. 

Think about that. If we were required to take more in depth driving tests more often, there would be significantly fewer accidents, fewer drivers, fewer cars on the road, less car emissions, and way less traffic. The number of driving related deaths would plummet. Heaven on earth. As it stands right now, we give a drivers licenses to dumb kids that can't even vote. If we gave out pilot licenses in the same manner, more houses would have small-engine planes sticking out of their roofs. 

Since that will never happen (damn auto industry lobbyists) I dream of the day that the old, the bad, the too young get out of the left lane if they aren't going faster than the speed limit. That is the number one reason traffic sucks as bad as it does. Especially when those bad drivers match the speed of the car right next to them in the right lane, not letting anyone around. Basically acting as a cork.

I hate bad drivers almost as much as snow.