In the news

[Andrew Buc]

** Reply to message from Robert Myers <robert at s-cars.org> on Thu, 17 Jul 2003
07:43:53 -0400

> In the news:  An 86 year old man plows through three blocks of pedestrians
> at a farmer's market in his Buick.

Some years ago, after a spate of these accidents, former racing driver Denise
McCluggage wrote a piece on this phenomenon for Autoweek. I thought it was
interesting that she said inappropriate braking is often a sign that a person
needs to hang up his/her car keys. People's ability to process information
deteriorates--as Ms. McCluggage put it, they're braking to stop the world, not
the car.