Ask us Anything 22nd July

And, um, just I did forget to mention with something for the, uh, people o- on the Zoom, if you want to ask questions, can you put it in the Q&A box? 'Cause I can monitor that, um, a lot more effectively than the chat.

Now, for me, Rob, um, I'm 61.

Yeah.

So I'm nearly getting into that...

Well, am I in that category? [laughs]

Yep, same here.

Same here.

Absolutely.

My wife always says to me, "I hope when you get to that age that you have to start thinking, you know, about whether you continue driving or not.

You'll take the advice that you give." But I think, I think for all of us, it's important that we make sure we monitor and check that ourselves that we're safe to drive.

I mean, if you think about it, we MOT our cars regularly.

Actually, we should be-

Yes

...

MOT'ing ourselves-

Oh, yeah

... to make sure that we're fit and healthy.

And you know, we have drivers in their 40s no longer fit to drive, and we have drivers in their late 90s, early 100s, perfectly fit to drive.

Yeah.

So we all age differently, so it's all about...

But we do see as we do age, our sight, hearing, reaction times do start to be an issue which can make older drivers much more vulnerable to collisions, which when w- then when they are involved in collisions, frailty is a big issue that then ends up often bringing about their demise.

Yeah.

And, uh, w- I, I've been working with older drivers for quite a while now-

Mm

... through lots of different things, and it was brought home to me with my dad.