Korean Journal of Research in Gerontology

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Is it Appropriate to Limit the Validity of Older Driver’s License for Commercial Use?

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김영순,윤가현
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pp. 195~218 / 2014 Vol.23 No.0
p-ISSN1226-2641
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Abstract

Most modern societies have been facing with a variety of socialproblems owing to aging population. One of the problems would beto grow the number of older drivers and to increase the number ofautomobile accidents that the older drivers have involved. Thus, itwas discussed whether it would be appropriate to limit the validityof older driver’s license, especially for commercial use, as apreventive measure of the accidents in this paper. At the last partof the paper, the authors maintain that a better driving aptitudetest to assess comprehensive abilities related to safe and qualitydriving should be developed.

Keywords

고령사회 고령운전자 교통사고 운전면허 운전적성 검사