Abstract
This paper describes how dependent American senior citizens are on the car - as either drivers or passengers and how this dependence becomes part of a web of behaviours and choices which cannot be easily reversed. Because of these complicated lifestyle decisions the elderly who can no longer drive for physical, financial, or emotional reasons face even greater mobility losses than life-long non-drivers. And since many non-drivers rely on other elderly people to chauffeur them, the loss of one driver's license in a household or neighbourhood network can mean the loss of mobility for a number of senior citizens.