| Sumario: | Part of a special issue on aging and the senses. The writer argues that there is a need for the development of an empirical, justifiable, and equitable set of vision standards for the licensure of eligible drivers over the age of 65, whose numbers are set to increase to 50 million in the U.S. by 2020. Whereas he admits that the solution to the older driver problem is not so simple, especially in terms of the potential impact of vision impairment, and he suggests that the elderly could well represent the most hazardous group of drivers on the road, he is optimistic that improvements to the confusing state of current vision standards as well as technological innovation may solve the mobility problems for tomorrow's generation of elders.
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