Should persons with an handicap be allowed to drive ?

No. This is not me being prejudiced or hateful (I am, quite the opposite generally, towards handicapped people), however I have been seeing on the roads lately a huge influx of "handicapped" people. Maybe it is just America, but people can get handicapped certification for just being overweight. It is ridiculous. The word handicapped signifies, to me at least, that a person is incapable of existing independently. To be handicapped, by my standards at least, a person should be dependent on someone else to exist. There is nothing "wrong" with this, directly; but I do not think it is fair to give people special rights for their inability to exist independently. I mean, consider it. Handicapped people get special parking spaces, wheelchairs (eh, some of them), and money from the government (not to mention other benefits depending on the injury and extent of it). There is no reason for these people to be driving. If they can drive, they should be working and not using my tax dollars and getting their life paid off. I am not bothered by people who are truly disabled, but these new "fake" handicapped people. But, someone who is truly disabled should not be driving. I could rant for a while, I will stop here.

I think that is too broad a question to answer as there are a multitude of handicaps out there...Many handicapped people can drive. I personally know a man who drives just fine with no legs at all...He has all hand held systems in the car and he even gets out and pumps his own gas. He is a true inspiration to a handicapped person. I watched him working one day on the roof of a house in amazement, He hops around faster than I could and doesnt need to stop to think how to do something next!

Personally I feel if people are saying that people with handicaps should not be out there driving, then that is limiting them, and like putting a Stop to anyone with a disability for sure. There are many people out there driving who have a lot of disabilities and I feel that this is Good. Personally I choose not to drive, and glad I do not due to some of my Health reasons, but if a person wants to drive, and there is ways to accomidate them no matter what their Health situation is, then let them. When you can offer people a choice at independance even if they are in a Wheelchair, etc. you are helping to improve their quality of life as well.

I believe that anyone with a handicap who can *safely* operate a motor vehicle should be able to do so. I know a man who is in a wheelchair and he drives a specially equipped van. He's most likely a safer driver than I am. On the other hand, I also used to work with a woman who had a seizure disorder and, after *5* accidents, her license was finally revoked. She cannot safely operate a motor vehicle because she never knows when she's giong to have a seizure and she could have killed or injured herself or someone else five times.

Yes I think they should have the right to drive just like the rest of us. My next door neighbour is in a wheelchair and he drives and with out his car he would have very limited mobility and cut off from friends and family. He is one of the safest drivers I know and I have been in his car with with him many times. The car is all modified so everthing can be controlled by his hands, its pretty cool to be honest.

I think that if you are capable of passing a driving test you should be able to drive, unless you have a condition which makes you likely to have a fit or seizure which can't be predicted beforehand. When you think of the really bad drivers about, who have no disabilities, it would be wrong to disqualify someone who is disabled on those grounds. I suppose what I mean is that because you are disabled, doesn't make you a bad driver.

I an think of only two handicaps that i think should not be driving and they are being blind and being completely paralyzed. A person needs to be able to see every thing around them to drive safely. A paralyzed person isn't able to react as fast as possibly needed and can't see all the way around them. Cars can be fitted most other handicaps.

Apart from blindness, I don’t think I would have any issues with any other kind of handicap. Of course each car would have to be different and fitted with the requisite technological assistance, according to the special need of its driver. I mention blindness coz I would not really want to depend on a machine 100% when I am not actually seeing where I am going. I believe there are cars which can guide a blind driver, but I would not be too comfortable with the system, if I myself would have been a blind person. I would rather depend on some person to take me around.

i think if they can handle it, like myself for being concern handicap i do drive, my like my wife she is too and don't because it's not safe due to eye sight

I think it does depend on the disability and how confident the individual is. Sometimes it is the disabilities that you can't see that are most dangerous. I know a woman who has seizures resulting from an operation she had to remove a blood clot from her brain. The seizures are rare but they have occurred and here she is driving and with a small child in the car! I cringe when I see her get behind the wheel yet she is driving around quite legally as her doctor has given permission. I know the attacks are rare but it would just take one... Having said that I do think that many other people with disabilities who have especially designed vehicles can drive quite safely and should by all means allowed to do so.

yup ill....giving them all that we do will make em happy...also they wont feel departed from this world....this would definately make em happy and also itll boost their confidence level....

wow thats a really good question i want to say now because my aunt is handicapped and shes been wanting to drive but cant afford the car with all the technology. but then i am a mom and i dont know if i would want someone who can react as fast to stop or prevent an accident to be on the road with me and my daughter. i think my answer would be it depends on what kind of condition the handicapped person is in and how bad it is.

i have watched a TV programme, featured an excellent long-vehicle drivers. He had lost his two hands in an accident when he was very young. later, he got greatly interested in driving and become very good at it. But since he couldn't get driving license from the government due to his handicap, he had to take a dangerous job: driving long vehicle to carry timber in remote mountainous area. he survived and came to fame as an Ace driver. so i think every handicapped man could be a good and safe driver.

Nice question. I don't agree when an handicap be allowed to drive. Maybe it will make a harmful condition.

to me, as long as the person is capable to drive safely without endangering his/her or other people's lives, then i think the person should be allowed to drive even though he/she is handicapped... i mean, why not??? sometimes, handicapped people can drive more safely and responsibly than a normal person... so i don't think they should be discriminated... take care and have a nice day...

i think they should be able to drive if they are capable of doing that. we all take our lives & others in jeopardy when we get behind the wheel of a car. i don't think handicapp people should be singled out. what about the drunks & dopers who are driving all the time. i would worry more about folks like that rather than handicapped people.

I think that is too broad of a question to answer. A lot would depend on what the handicap is. Too, some with handicap plaques,or tags is not the driver of the vehicle but the passenger that needs the handicap spaces, so I think sometimes it is a misjudgement when you just see the logo. Too it could be a heart or leg condition that may have nothing to do with driving, but that they can not make long walks. There is a lot of stipulations. I do think though that people with forms of dementia do not need to drive. I feel their ability to make safe decisions is altered.

there are handicaps that can't be allowed to drive on the road like, it's more of a wide understanding on this subject matter and i don't want to offend those people. but i do think that driving is something that should be given freely the opportunity of it.

Why not as long as they can steer and use the controls on the car.If someone is epileptic and may be unable to cope or have blackouts then no it would be to dangerous for the other road users,it is bad enough being handicaped without losing your car so I am for it,anything for independence to give the person a more fulfild life.