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Understanding the Adoption of and Education About New Auto Technologies Among Older Adults
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2019-12-15
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Abstract:The rate of deployment of new automotive technologies into vehicles has seemingly increased over the past decade. Drivers face an array of technologies in new vehicles today that provide the driver with increased automation and direct support for the driving task. Unlike advances in safety around air bags or electronic stability control, or changes in convenience offerings like intermittent windshield wipers, the newest technologies offer the prospect of altering drivers’ behavior: drivers may transition from more of an active operator to more of a systems overseer during some aspects of driving. The technologies also offer the prospect of increased driver and passenger safety. Beyond the safety enhancements, these newest technologies foreshadow the emergence of the fully autonomous vehicle. The emerging auto technologies also present the possibility of keeping drivers who might be more vulnerable driving more safely. Younger drivers might benefit from the systems that keep them safer in the advent of a crash, or from systems that reinforce behaviors, such as checking blind spots, that less experienced drivers may not have committed to habit. Older drivers may be able to extend their safe driving lifetimes longer with systems that provide some compensation for the physical changes that typically accompany age, such as reduced range of motion (e.g., Reimer et al. 2008). Enabling older adults to continue to drive safely longer has a positive impact on their mobility (e.g., Haustein & Siren 2014), well-being (e.g., Nordbakke & Schwanen 2014), and physical health (e.g., Marottoli et al. 1997).
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Content Notes:The New England University Transportation Center is a consortium of 5 universities funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program. Members of the consortium are MIT, the University of Connecticut, the University of Maine, the University of Massachusetts, and Harvard University. MIT is the lead university.
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