Achieving Safety on the Road

A presentation by Sumer Batchelor, Israel Cazuela-Garcia,

Sarah Kermon, and Amanda McQuade
Introduction
Should driving examinations be given at license renewal
periods to enable licenses holders to continue holding their
license?

Why is this an important issue?

Santa Monica farmers market event

90-year-old women highway accident

Scientifically
Medical Problems Developing

Hearing Loss Study

Hearing loss affects ones quality of driving

Fine Motor Skills Study

Fig. 1. 1
Cognitive development

Blue Mountain Eye Study

Ocular Disorders in young drivers
Normal Vision vs Vision with Glaucoma

Fig. 1.2
Ethically
Workers are also required to do many
complex tasks
Is this right?

DMVs have to hire multiple workers to get

through enough people
Is it worth it?
Fig 2.1
Could it get worse?

Is it right to take away the licenses of those

who earned them legally?
Economics: On a National Level
Little money is allocated to the United States Department of
Transportation (USDOT) for it to provide and manage its various
branches
What would happen if we put more strain on that budget for extra driving
examinations?

More money allocation has the potential to increase job growth and
with it greater economic success
Economics: On a State Level
Fig. 3.1
Strained budget of the USDOT =

Strained budget for the DMV

Not enough is made by DMVs to offset

costs of service
North Carolina budgeting report made
findings displayed in Fig. 3.1

Oregon DMV report found that 56% of cost to

them for particular services only make up
9.2% of profit
The Future: Self-Driving Cars and Medical
Advancements
Googles self-driving car: Waymo
Waymo is one of the most popular autonomous cars

Intraoperative Wavefront Aberrometry

More accurately measures refractive error in eye

Bionic eyes Fig. 4.1

Conclusion
Synthesis of lenses

How Scientific, ethical, economical, and futuristic lenses correlate

Possible Solutions

Testing older population

Avoid increasing budget

Fig. 5.1

More grants placed for research

Technological Development
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