An editorial I read today reminded me that if you have a condition that can affect your driving, your doctor must report it to the Ministry of Transportation and they can suspend your license. The case in point was a man with sleep apnea who didn't know this would happen and ended up mightily inconvienianced.

Same paper referenced ideas to fix the problem we have in Ontario with disabled parking permits, since there are many more of them than disabled persons who drive. While marveling at the logic of the city councillor who believed that charging for meter parking would somehow reduce the number of permits, I recalled that it's also been discovered that there are more disabled parking permits assigned to 100+ yr olds than the province has persons of this age.

So then I wonder - if your doctor has to report conditions that affect your driving, why isn't death on the list of objectionable conditions? I'd put it near the top. Being dead would certainly affect one's ability to gauge oncoming traffic and respond in a timely fashion. True, sleep apnea is very serious - you can actually hallucinate and possibly lose consiousness at the wheel. However, if one is dead they can't rely on any sensory information, and are pretty much guarenteed an unconsious state. Zombie rights groups may disagree but I'm inclined to say the dead have no place in the drivers seat.