It is an inescapable fact that with age comes a slowing down of reactions, deterioration in sight and hearing, and an increasing inability to deal with ever-busier traffic conditions.
It is also a fact that very few old people who are beyond levels of safe driving willingly relinquish their licences, as advised, it takes an accident to make them do so, often compelled by the courts.
My DIL is ninety this month, seriously deaf, shortsighted, and infirm, but he still insists on driving because he 'only goes local'. I am waiting for the inevitable accident which will lose his licence for him, the only way he will stop driving.
My daughter had her car hit by an eighty-plus woman coming off a car park who mistook her accelerator and brake pedals - she wrote off her own car, one van, and seriously damaged my daughter's car and gave her whiplash.
Most pilots fly safely year in year out, but would anyone not want them to take mandatory capability tests which they are required to do?