Abstract
The aging process affects the visual, auditory, and information-processing abilities, all of which in turn affect driving. The bulk of the literature on older drivers focuses on the negative changes in driver performance. Is there any hope for older drivers? Somewhat less attention has been given to what the driver does do. Here, there is more room for optimism about older drivers. Humans are by nature adaptive. Changes in physical, perceptual, and cognitive abilities are new conditions that everyone faces with time. Adaptive changes concern conscious and unconscious decisions made by older drivers in relation to driving and in response to conscious and unconscious awareness of declining functions and changing mobility needs.