- View PhotoAssociated Press/Nick Perry - In this Sunday, May 26, 2013 photo, New Zealand's oldest driver Bob Edwards stands in front of his red Mitsubishi in Ngataki, New Zealand.
NGATAKI, New Zealand (AP) — Bob Edwards
was born before the first Model T rolled out of Henry Ford's factory in
Detroit. He learned to drive in a French car that had a lever instead
of a steering wheel. And he's still on the road, only now in a red
four-wheel-drive Mitsubishi.
The oldest licensed driver in New Zealand, and one of the oldest in
the world, has been driving for 88 of his 105 years and has no plans to
give it up, just as he intends to keep working out every morning in his
home gym, and to keep regularly cooking meals for himself and his wife,
who's 91.
"In fact, I don't think I'm old," Edwards says. "Not really."He's been involved in just one crash in his life and has gotten just one speeding ticket, a citation that still gets him riled up years later. When he broke his left hip three years ago, his doctors said to stop driving for six weeks but he didn't pay them much mind. After all, he says, he drives an automatic and only needs his right leg for that.
In New Zealand, drivers older than 80 must have their health and vision tested every two years to stay on the road. Many countries in Europe and U.S. states have similar requirements.
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