Age

Now, sadly, I have moved on from the regulatory compliance guy and am edging toward the latter category, although I don't wear a hat while driving, can still kinda see, can hear if my hearing aids are stuck in, and my RPod ain't nowhere near 10's of thousands of pounds. My blood pressure's pretty good though!

No intention of stopping RPodding anytime soon!

 

The only ticket I have ever gotten was in Germany on the Autobahn. 

I did not slow down fast enough entering a construction zone and got caught by a radar camera. I received the ticket through distribution channels a few months after the incident.

I have tried to be very cautious over the years. I still try to practice what was in driver's ed from back in high school and what is in the driver's manual for my state (NC). It helped when I needed to take a road test again after my stroke that I did not have to do anything different than what I normally do as I have the good habits ingrained (such as turning into the proper lane when entering a 4 lane road from either left or right turn or coming to a full stop at the stop line before making a right-turn on red).

My mother gave up driving after she had a stroke that affected her language abilities. She was afraid she would not recognize stop signs or lights properly and did not want to be the cause of an accident. My dad, OTOH, was probably driving longer than he should have but had some medical problems that stopped him from driving finally without us having to have that discussion. They still have the car, but my younger sister is planning on selling it for them as soon as she can (she handles their finances).

I'm thankful to be able to drive and to tow our RPod. It will be hard to eventually have togive it up, but I hope I have the sense to do so when the time comes that it is necessary.