The Senior Driver's Guidebook: How To Keep Driving Longer And Survive In The 21st Century

I ran across this book and gave it to my father as a gift, hoping it might help (and not offend him!) He was thrilled! The book is very easy to follow, helps identify and deal with bad driving habits, and gives lots of good tips on driving safely and defensively on busy roads and highways. I'm not sure my father drives *that* much better, but he's a lot more confident while driving, and that certainly makes him safer on the road. He has lent his copy to several friends -- a sure sign that he liked the gift. I feel that if he only learned one or two safe-driving tips, the book would have been worth every penny. He's learned more than that -- things younger drivers have to learn when they take their driver's test (which he never did). Not having read the whole book myself, but judging from its success with my father and his friends, I recommend the book highly. A wise and thoughtful gift to a senior you love.


Senior Driver's Guidebook: How To Keep Driving Longer . . .   May 24, 2000
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I read the Senior Driver's Guidebook with interest, as one who deals with rush-hour traffic on a daily basis. I appreciated receiving the benefit of the author's years of experience as both a driver's license examiner & working with the Dept. of Transportation. I learned many tips and ideas to make driving easier and safer as our state's freeways become less safe. The author emphasizes defensive driving throughout the book, and then tells us how we can accomplish that in various situations that arise. I liked the format, because I could read a chapter or two and put it down until I had more time to digest more information. I also liked the little tests at the end of each chapter. I would recommend this book for anyone who drives today's crazy roads and freeways.


The Senior Driver's Guidebook   November 24, 1999
 1 out of 4 found this review helpful

According to his biography, the author is an expert on traffic accident records. He is not qualified to write a driving or drivers manual for senior drivers simply because he has become a senior driver. Of the 108 pages, 35 are devoted to the title's subject. The rest of the pages are filler. The writing is unclear and inane. "Being inattentive to the possibilities of a collision with a train is a sad way to end a nice quiet ride in the country." Do tell. The structure of the book leads the reader into mazes and blind alleys. The best part of the book is the bibliography and the five pages of State vehicle department addresses. My $25 could have been much better spent.