The risk of an accident skyrockets for drivers over 80, with only teenagers looking worse. We need better screening for anyone over 70. We also need better public transport for the elderly.

Go for it. It seems like drivers in late life decline get a pass unless their family steps in. While it might be irritating when it happens, sound minded me would rather have future me be stopped by a system before hurting anyone. Self driving cars might actually work by then anyway so it wouldn’t even be an issue.

Great let’s make one for politicians

Using ensemble learning techniques and longitudinal data from a large naturalistic driving study, researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons have developed a novel, interpretable and highly accurate algorithm for predicting mild cognitive impairment and dementia in older drivers. Digital markers refer to variables generated from data captured through recording devices in the real-world setting. These data could be processed to measure driving behavior, performance and tempo-spatial pattern in exceptional detail. The study is published in the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.

The researchers used an interaction-based classification method for selecting predictive variables in the dataset. This learning model has achieved an accuracy of 96 percent in predicting mild cognitive impairment and dementia, outperforming traditional machine learning models such as logistic regression and random forests -- a statistical technique widely used in AI for classifying disease status. “Our new ensemble learning model based on digital markers and basic demographic characteristics can predict mild cognitive impairment and dementia in older drivers with excellent accuracy,” said Sharon Di, associate professor of civil engineering and engineering mechanics at Columbia Engineering and the study’s lead author.

The investigators constructed 200 variable modules using the naturalistic driving data on the driver, the vehicle and the environment captured by in-vehicle recording devices for 2977 drivers participating in the Longitudinal Research on Aging Drivers (LongROAD) project, a prospective cohort study conducted in five sites across the contiguous United States and sponsored by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. At the time of enrollment, the participants were active drivers aged 65-79 years who were cognitively intact. Data used in this study came from the first three years of follow-up, spanning from August 2015 through March 2019. During the follow-up, 36 participants were diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, 8 with Alzheimer’s disease, and 17 with other or unspecified dementia.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0933365723000246#b7

What's the false positive/negative rate. How's it work on 30-year olds? Mostly I see asshole drivers a lot younger than I am.

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Great. Now let’s implement it into biannual license tests for people over a certain age

We need mandatory annual screening for drivers over 70, and semi-annual (every 6 months) screenings for drivers over 80.