Essays on Driving Ability

Abstract

The study examined the effects of stereotyping gender and age on the perception of their driving speed. There were two approaches used for selecting participants. A Qualtrics survey was used to study fifty-nine participants who were recruited from Social Psychology Laboratory course at Nevada State College and others (N = 25) recruited from the online social network Facebook. The procedure involved presenting participants with a written description of the driver in a two (age of the target: middle-age vs. old) by two (gender of the target: woman vs. man) between-subjects experiment. Afterwards, the participants watched a ten-second video clip and ...

Fell et al. argues that “implementing a federal requirement for states to mandatory examine older drivers is the key to end road carnage(424” .Fatal crashes for older drivers are significantly different to those of other age groups. Drivers aged 70 in most instances intersection crashes are common while driving given that, the older driver is turning right across traffic and accidents where the older driver drives off the road (Fell et al. 423-431). It is essential for old drivers to have a medical examination each year so that to retain their license. As elderly drivers reach 70 years ...

In about twenty years from now, studies show that the number of elderly drivers (those who are 70 years of age or older) will triple in the United States. This means that the number of mature drivers will increase (Nakagawa, Park, and Kumagai, 397). There are a lot of people who argue that the elderly should not be behind the wheel. It is not so much their age that affects their driving, but the declining capabilities which render them less capable of being safe drivers on the road. Many senior citizen drivers say that they need to modify their driving ...