Mojo In The Morning
Drivers Ed For Old People
This is the Mojo in the Morning podcast, powered by Michigan Auto Law, auto accident attorneys. Visit autolaw.com. That's autolaw.com. Mojo in the morning, Megan would like to pass a law, and maybe there is one. Who knows? Maybe we'll find out during this thing. And it was the law that would protect you from ever getting killed. What happened? So I live in a neighborhood in the South End that has like a lot of one-way streets. I genuinely had a moment yesterday where I was very grateful that I drive a Wrangler because my car is made to go off-roading, which is what I did yesterday. This woman who on the low estimate was 3000 years old, decided that today was the day that she was going to absolutely just not care about anybody else's life who was on the road because she had places to be. And she pulled out of a driveway and started driving the wrong way down a one-way street out of me. Yeah, it was kind of scary because I actually live in a neighborhood that just had their roads redone and they're like fresh curbs, so they're not worn down from teenage drivers. They're like a fully established, hard cement, haven't had a winter to kind of crumble the edges yet, solid curvature in my neighborhood right now. And I had to hop the curb into somebody's yard to avoid getting hit. And when I tell you, this didn't even phase this woman who could barely see over the steering wheel anyways, it was wild to me that she had no regard in the world that a car next were just driven through somebody's right yard. Like everything should have said, "Hey, I'm driving down a road where parked cars are facing the wrong way." "Hey, somebody just drove into a yard and hey, why are none of the street signs facing me?" Like the signs were there, lady. Yeah. And I think that we should start re-establishing some driver's tests for people, and I don't know what the starting age should be. Or maybe it should be like at 30. Every five years we got to start taking drive. I know it would be a huge pain in the butt, but I've always thought that there should be every decade or something you have to take your driver's test again. Really? It's already a pain enough as it is. First of all, I'm calling myself out. I'm a terrible driver. I could probably use a little refresher, but don't you? You go on the south food freeway, and I'm like, "These people need a crash course, not a crash course. That's a bad pun." These people need like a refresher in how to drive. I mean, you got to renew your license. You got to renew your license, right? You got to renew your ID. Might as well do it at the same time. Here's the deal. We're going to ask the question. Whose license needs to be taken away from them based on the story that you tell us of how they drove? What are you? Call us up. If you're older than the highway speed limit, you should. Yeah. You're not allowed on streets like that? Yeah. 844 mojo live, 844-665-6548 is our telephone number. I remember taking my kids to go get their driver's test on, and all I kept thinking the whole time was, "I don't think I could pass this test." That's what I mean. Yeah. Not the written part. I'm talking like the road test. Like, yeah. But also, okay, if you have been at the DMV where they're doing the vision test, and the people clearly aren't passing, the people behind the desk don't really care either, and you're letting these people back out of the road. They have no peripheral -- they can't see the blinking light. They didn't see it. Meghan, I was at Secretary of State recently, and the guy that was looking at a thing kept going, "I don't know what's going on here. Hold on. He's doing this thing." And the lady behind she got her mask on, and she's kind of like giving them dirty eyeballs and stuff, and she's going, "All right, hold on a second." And she just like signs the thing off and gives the guy, "All right, come back with your glasses on. If it still gives them this stuff, I'm going, "Oh boy." Do you do the thing in Michigan where while you're taking like a vision test, they have a blinking light? Yeah. Yes. And you have to like say which side it's on? Yeah. Every time I watch somebody distributing this, and somebody's not getting the light, the person goes, "Yeah." Do we see a blinking light? But you're telling them. You're telling them to look for it. Stop. Holly, what's up? It's Mojo in the morning. Good morning, guys. I was just calling the comment about my mom. She used to drive on M59 to work, and multiple times a week, she would call and say, "Oh, my God. I had to get my car towed off the median on Hall Road today, like multiple times a week." And I'd be like, "Mom, why?" Well, there was a deer, or there was a bird, and she was currently driving up on the median. Yes, bird. Wow. And that's, by the way, for those who don't know what Hall Road looks like in that area, it's a major, major highway, like roadway. I get, when I go up to your side of town, I am fearful of driving on that road. Yeah, nobody wants to drive there. Yeah. And then you see the golden butthole, or the toilet. What is it called? It's a golden butthole. Yeah. You got that thing, and that's where that crazy piece of art is. What's up, Don? Hi, Don. Don! Don! Don! Don. It feels the test. Oh, Dylan. I'm sorry, Dylan. I'm sorry. By the way, take our license away. What's going on, Dylan? No, I was going to say, me and my girlfriend have the conversations almost every day on how bad drivers are, and we think that over the age of 50, you need it like five years until you hit 65, and then you need it like every two years, you need to take your test. Yeah. But listen, when you think about this and you go, okay, take it for this much time, imagine that you had to be that person that takes that test. Would that annoy you? Yeah. Because I hate the cities that, we don't have this in Michigan, and I don't know if Ohio has it. It's the emissions test. When I lived in Illinois, you had to take your car every year for an emissions test. It is a pain in the royal arse doing that. Yeah. Yeah. No, we don't have to do that, but I'm so, I'm so really young, and it's amazing to see how many drivers just can, just their safety hazards in our area, because we've got so many roundabouts. Like, our city just said around about training and almost nobody should have. Roundabouts are idiotic, but that's, but I think they're idiotic even have them because people, roundabouts, you know, when you go to the circle and you have to, like, figure out which way you go, Oh, they're not as common in Michigan as they are in Ohio. He lives by one now. The round. When you go in a circle. Oh, God, yeah. That's what it's called around about. So around about is that that, um, Kevin, by the way, we're taking his losses. You know, it's crazy. I like, I likes things like that. Yeah. I mean, I like it's fun for me. Your girlfriend. It's exciting. Anxiety going in. Yeah. You got a yield or you got to speed up and drive fast. You know, they, do you know that the rules of a roundabout are that you should never have to actually stop. You should never have to come to a full stop. Please don't say that. I'm not. No, Joe said, Megan, you're correct in the creek. Like the thing that matters that is that, but the problem is, the problem is people don't go at the same pace at a pace. Well, no, some I'm not supposed to speed up, you know, and race through. I don't think you're supposed, I agree with Megan. I don't think you're supposed to not stop. Some of them have yield signs. Yeah. Where like some people don't have to stop, like one direction to have to stop the other side is supposed to yield and allow you to go. Um, Mojo in the morning, what's going on, Kim? If that makes sense. Good morning. Hey. I, my son a couple of weeks ago just picked up his cap and gown, getting ready to graduate was driving down the road and stopped at a stop. Like a lady plows out of a parking lot from a car wash and falls right into the side of them. And her excuse was that she, her breaks didn't work because they were wet. And how old is this lady? 81. Oh, see over the speed limit and real quick, I got a question for you. Is she driving a white Buick, it was a Buick, but it wasn't me then. Close. Close. Finishing family. Oh, leave her and said, well, that's a legit excuse in my son, you know, being a smart athlete. And your old says, um, so she can't drive in the rain then. Oh, yeah, um, this is, uh, Angela on the phone with us. Hi, Angela. Hi. Good morning. Oh my God. I'm like, Oh my God. Do you want to drive? He was like, it's a roundabout. I'm like, oh my God. Do you want to drive? He was like, it's a roundabout. I'm like, it's just stupid. It's just stupid. It's just stupid. It's just stupid. It's just stupid. It's just stupid. It's just stupid. It's just stupid. It's just stupid. It's just stupid. It's just stupid. It's just stupid. It's just stupid. It's just stupid. It's just stupid. It's just stupid. It's just stupid. It's just stupid. It's just stupid. It really is. But that is exactly the right. Like a lot of people don't know how to do the roundabouts. That would be a reason. That would be something that they would teach in Driver's Ed. Yeah. I think it's a time saver. I'd rather have a roundabout than like a light that I'm waiting for. Same. No. All right, Angie. Give me the Michigan U-turn in the left. Well, a lot of people think we're nuts for doing the Michigan U-turn. But I love the Michigan lights. It's so great. Yeah, the Michigan left. Yes, it is. It is. Thank you for the call. You're welcome. Have a good morning. Hey, it's Ryan Seacrest. 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