[aceofspades19]

A thousand times this. It seems like no one cares about the elderly driving but they are frothing at the mouth to punish young drivers and make increasingly harder - and non-nonsensical restrictions on them. But a 90 year old man that can't see and hear can drive as much as he wants without any restrictions even though he is arguably higher risk than a young person who can see, hear and react faster

[Zak]

Old people vote, and tend to have more effective lobbying groups than young people do. Those under 18, in particular cannot vote, and those just over often don't.

On a possibly related note: nobody I've voted for for Federal office has ever won that office. I don't know enough about the relevant theory to say what effect that might have on how hard a politician should go after my vote, but it seems noteworthy.