If you need this on the back of your car you shouldn’t be driving?

[escapingtothecountry]

Just that really.I saw it on a car last week (dash cam picture, before someone asks) Am I required to be patient when your reactions are so slow that you can’t break fast enough and hit my car, or worse my child?

Lots of people shouldn't be on the road, those who happen to pass the test on the 20th attempt for instance, those who are too nervous to use a motorway, those who are have distracting noisy children in the back. Anyone with a Little Princess on Board should have their car crushed, take HRH out first if you must!

I live in a rural area. I have never come across ' bad driving ' because someone is elderly. Slow, yes but not unsafe.
As a PP said, there could be any number of reasons that someone feels less confident.
We all seem to be so intolerant now.

Good driving means being alert to slower drivers, new drivers and less confident ones.
Never judge, you don't know whats going on in that driver's life. And one day it may be us.

Smug, no?
Didn't want to come across like that, but we all need to be more tolerant.
Back in the day, elderly people died before they drove into their 70s and 80s.
We have to assimilate older people into our lives, however distasteful that is.
Dangerous driving, well I've seen plenty of that across the younger age spectrum..

Agree with EL888. Also, isn't this why they have free bus passes? Because of slower reactions & higher potential to cause accidents?

This may or may not be the case. However, the passes are useless without the buses to go with them. Unless you live close to town, public transport is virtually non- existent, or of no real practical use. I only live 3 miles out of the town centre and the buses are one every 2 hours, the last bus home being at 6pm. Don't give me a bus pass. Just give me a bus to catch.

grammar Back in the day, elderly people died before they drove into their 70s and 80s.
We have to assimilate older people into our lives, however distasteful that is.
that is a very very distasteful thing to write - imagine if you had said that about any other section of society

If I saw this sign on a car in front I'd think FFS let's try to get past them asap (dual carriage way not dangerous over taking) id just presume they'd be slow and annoying, just like if I saw a Micra in front! Ha ha
But after reading some comments about the reasoning for such a sign I can see why someone might feel the necessity for it.
After I passed my test I used the green P for my first few motorway trips.

It’s just a stupid, ageist ‘joke’ sign.

They make more and more of these stupid signs with ever decreasing wit.

I honestly think it should be made not legal to display what are essentially decorations in your car window.

They should make a sign saying “Beware! sign in window, driver’s View obscured”

TheRedBarrows but surely the older drivers are buying the signs?

My MIL has a 'yummy mummy on board' sign 🤢 Now I know her sign is not meant to be taken seriously so I imagine the elderly one isn't either. Both ridiculous and blocking view out the window!

We have to assimilate older people into our lives, however distasteful that is.

@Grammar that's one of the most offensive comments I've read on Mumsnet.

I have quite strong feelings about elderly drivers (using that phrase because that's what the sign in the car said).

This is not ageism. It's accepting the fact that things may change as we get older. My job was one where I could be asked by the DVLA about someone's fitness to drive. The bar is very low. You can express strong feelings about your concerns and they may not be taken into account.

Lack of public transport, wanting to be independent, denying any illnesses which might cause problems: all of these may lead to people carrying on driving when they really shouldn't.

I agree with a previous poster: there should be regular driving tests. Then any old my age in fact drivers who are safe on the roads will pass; those who are a bit dodgy (eg the person with early dementia I said shouldn't be driving who carried on and killed a child) won't.

I need one that says 'if you tailgate me I'll drive more slowly so don't bother' or something along those lines!

and do the baby on board signs not alert emergency services to the presence of a child?
No they don't.
Emergency services don't look at that before they look for actual passengers.
Those signs annoy me to be honest. Not massively as not my business but I find them

Maybe it means be patient when they are getting in and out of the car?
Trying to find a positive

• The worst drivers are school run mums and aggressive younger men and women in fancy cars. I would rather tootle round at 20 behind an elderly driver (safe and legal) than have someone aggressively tail gating when I am driving at the speed limit.* Whilst I sympathise and agree that speeders and angry entitled drivers male me feel very unsafe, most accidents are caused by new speeding drivers or elderly people with slow reflex or whom press the gas instead of the breaks. Not elderly people in general.

I see it as more likely to be tentative overtaking slow vehicles or crossing busy roads etc.

I want to press a button in my car which makes a sign light up in the rear window with the following “back the fuck off”, “too close”, “indicators?!” And the standard one “arsehole!”

I'd be more worried about a car being driven by someone who thinks its ok to put eyelashes on their front lights....

I frequently get stuck behind old folk doing 20 miles an hour.

Now, that simply isn't true, is it? Because it doesn't happen to the rest of us.

As a nation we seem to be increasingly intolerant of old people.

Also, isn't this why they have free bus passes? Because of slower reactions & higher potential to cause accidents?

If this was down to the potential to cause accidents, young men under the age of 25 would have free bus passes as well.

"Not fit to drive please be patient/forgiving"

YANBU

Patience when they are at the petrol garage fair enough, but when actually driving nobody should need "allowances" with exception of learners with an instructor as indicated by a L plate. If you need extra time to react, at junctions etc then you should not be still driving and yes that sign is blocking visibility!

You really do read some shit on here about driving. Prime example @LadyRannadini. Anyone who passes their test after 20 attempts is probably one of the safest drivers on the road. Some people never have to drive on a motorway, there are some parts of the UK where there aren’t any motorways. No parent should ever drove their children anywhere. DFOD.

The arrogance of some people is astonishing. If other drivers won’t/don’t drive exactly like them they shouldn’t be on the road. There are a lot of very dangerous drivers on the road, they tend not to be the careful, cautious ones.