1. Introduction In developed countries, the population of older adult drivers is predicted to be the fastest growing driver segment in the next ten years (Casutt et al. 2014). As quality of life in these countries increases, older adult drivers are more likely to continue driving regardless of their age (Bélanger, Gagnon, and Yamin 2010). Their tendency to continue driving is increasing while complicating factors such as age-related sensory, physical, and cognitive changes, as well as complex modern traffic environments, pose increasing risks to the older adult populations. In addition to these risks, if older adult drivers involved in crashes, they are more fragile and more likely to incur fatal injury while today’s healthcare costs are unendurable …show more content…
• What kind of assistance do they need in those situations? • Which in-vehicle technologies can provide the needed assistance? • What are the highlighting dimensions of older adult drivers’ in-vehicle technology acceptance? To answer these questions, a survey was conducted to identify those challenging driving situations that older adult drivers tend to avoid or feel reluctant to engage. Older adult drivers were also surveyed on their demographic, driving experiences, health concerns, crash experiences. After identifying the driving challenges and type of required assistance, this study explored feasible in-vehicle technologies that could provide assistance to older adult drivers. The study focuses on currently available, lower-level in-vehicle technology that could enhance older adult drivers' driving and their driving safety. Through the questionnaires, we explored older adult drivers’ acceptance of identified in-vehicle technologies such as Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), Side View Assist (SVA) system, Lane Departure Warning (LDW) system, Night Vision Camera (NVC), Automated Pedestrian Detecting system (APD), and Automatic Windshield Wipers (AWW) …show more content…
However, these new technologies could not benefit the users, especially the older adult users unless they are accepted. One of the early frameworks which explained technologies acceptance is the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) (Davis 1989). This model found perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use as main effective factors on users’ decision. This model was extended to TAM2 ( and F. D. D. Venkatesh, Viswanath 2000), TAM3 ( and H. B. Venkatesh, Viswanath 2008) and the Unified Theories of Technology Acceptance Model (UTAUT) (Venkatesh, Viswanath, Michael G. Morris, Gordon B. Davis 2003) which integrated different models on the base of
Statistics show 16- to 17-year-old driver death rates increase with each additional passenger, which is due to distracted driving. Taking your eyes off the road for 2 (two) seconds, at 60 mph, means you have driven blindly for half the length of a football field. The risk of fatality is 3.6 times higher, when they are driving with passengers than when alone. For many years, the correlation between driving behavior and age has interested highway safety researchers and administrators. It is general knowledge that the greatest risk of motor vehicle crash...
According to the Journal of Applied Behavioral Analysis, "automobile crashes are the leading cause of death for those aged 3 to 33, with 43,005 (118 per day) Americans killed in 2002 alone" (Clayton, Helms, Simpson, 2006). Worldwide, vehicle accidents consist of 1.2 millions deaths per year, "behind only childhood infections and AIDS as cause of death amount people aged 5 to 30 years old" (Clayton., 2006). The annual cost of road accidents is estimated about $518 billion"(Factor, Yair, Mahalel, 2013). The fact alone of being in a moving, heavy vehicle is a danger in itself but individuals that do not wear their seat belts, talk on the phone, text, and do other distracting behavior also put themselves in even more harmful situations.
In the 21st century, our nation is facing a major issue, causing teenagers to lose their lives at the hand of the wheel due to inexperienced driving. “Teen drivers between the ages of 16 and 19 are four times more likely than older drivers to be involved in an automobile crash,” and statistics show. Automobile accidents are the number one cause of teen deaths. Driving regulations are in high need to be changed in order for teenagers to gain more experience with driving before taking the driving test, which could help save countless adolescence’s lives.
Car crashes have been and are the number one cause of death for teens. (1) Many feel that the development of their brain is not advanced enough to handle driving. Impulse control is the last thing to develop in the teen brain and doesn’t reach maturity until their early 20’s. Irresponsibility is also a problem with teens. The CDC states that teens are more likely to drive too fast, get distracted and underestimate hazards. This is especially true of males. (1) Each year, more than 5000 teenagers die in motor vehicle accidents. The rate of motor vehicle accidents, both nonfatal and fatal for 16 year olds is almost 10 times higher then drivers 30 to 59 according to the National Highway Safety Administration.(3)
According to Carnegie Mellon University the casualties’ rate for drivers 85 years and older is 4 times more higher than it is for teenagers who are considered are most reckless drivers. Penndot statistics shows that the number of crashes involving drivers age 65 and older in 2013 was up 12 percent from five years before. Voanews indicates that in a lot of elderly drivers accidents they mistaken the gas pedal for the brakes or vice versa. One fatality crash can affect and impact people for their whole lives. These crashes can occur in seconds. According to cdc.gov there were nearly 5,700 elderly drivers that were killed. Police are already busy enough the more we can reduce their work the more it will help keep our community safer; not only in crashes but the police can also focus more on preventing drug deals and gang fights. To put it another way we don’t want families to be stressed out on their elderly parents safety we want them to feel like their parents are safe, so they can go help other issues in this
The cars swerved left and right causing My head to smash against the window with force. The car then bounced over the curb then smashing us down making me noxious. finally, “splat.” The squirrels guts splattered everywhere leaving its cute innocent body laying their drowning in his own blood. “Grandpa stop” he slammed on the brakes, and I never got in the car with him again. Within 3 minutes, my grandpa served up a curb and hit a squirrel, and the worst part is he did not realize that he hit the squirrel. Senior citizens have way too many health problems to drive,Their crashes cost money, and They crash a lot. Because senior citizens are a menace to society and should be required to retake their drivers test after 70 years of age.
Many older people are cashing more than ever because they will not give up their car keys when they need to say it is time to give up driving. We should defiantly propose that we take care of this issue by making them retake the exam. So many elderly are getting into wrecks and some are even driving on the wrong side of the road killing people. By proposing that we need to force the elderly to retake that driving exam every six months is to insure that they will be able to drive more safely on our public roads still today. A lot of people agree and dis-agree with the retaking idea of an exam, but it would be very beneficial to enforce this as a new law due to the high rising risks of older drivers. “Citizen Drivers over 65 may need retesting, limited licenses, and restricted hours of driving time because the number of car accidents involving seniors is rising” (Zarate, 2). We cannot keep people safe by allowing elderly people take over our roads creating a mass destruction on our poor young drivers. Making the elderly retake the driver’s exam is not currently legal in the state of Missouri due to equal rights, but it should become a law to help stop the elderly from crashing into other people or driving on the wrong side of the road. “Some will insist they are capable drivers despite all indications to the contrary. That's why we believe a driving test not just a medical exam at the age of 75 should be mandatory” ("Older Drivers”).
Although previous research found driving experience to be related to self-reported risky attitudes, Arnau-Sabatés, Sala-Roca, & Jariot-Garcia found no correlation between the two (2012). However, there may be an indirect link between age and risky driving behaviors because emotional skills tend to increase with age (Arnau-Sabatés et al., 2012). A driver who cannot control
Teens only make up seventeen percent of the population today, but almost twenty percent of fatal crashes are due to teenagers behind the wheel. Growing numbers suggest changing the driving age to eighteen and some even believe that changing it to twenty-one may save even more lives. With a sixteen year old behind the wheel, accidents are even more likely to occur when compared to a seventeen year old (Boulard). With so much new technology in today’s society there are more distractions on the road than ever before; therefore the legal driving age should be raised to save more lives. If we do not act quickly, then more lives will be lost.
Again, it makes the headlines; an older driver causes a dangerous automobile crash. As the amount of elderly driving has increased in the past decade, the risk for others to be out on the road has increased. In 2012, there were 36 million licensed older drivers in the United States. (Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation (US)) As a 34% increase from 1999, it has been noted that seniors are driving past their ability by an average of 10 years. (Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation (US)). Elderly continue to drive despite the prominent physiological changes that worsen as they age. The amount of automobile collisions suggests that prevention must occur in order to make the roads safer. By examining older drivers’ medical complications, older drivers must be retested to be able to drive a vehicle.
According to Anne Fleming, a Spokeswoman for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, "Immaturity and inexperience both contribute to crashes. It's hard to untangle the two…Raising the age from 16 to 17 saves lives in crashes. Raising it to 18 saves even more lives"(ProQuest). It is believed that the human brain is nearly 95 percent developed by the age of six. Neural connections are being made incredibly quick during a child’s first few years. However, this does not take into account a second period of maturing the brain goes through that lasts until the age of 21. The second growth in the brain accounts for important skills like decision making and risk assessment (Triplett). These two skills are essential to operating a motor vehicle. Teenagers at 16 years old are three times more likely to be involved in an accident than teenagers at 19 (Triplett). Experts believe that t...
“Young Drivers More Prone to Car Crashes Due to Their Underdeveloped Brains” 29 Apr 2010:
Abstract Should elders over the age of 75 not be permitted to drive? Elders over the age of 75 years old should not be permitted to drive because they tend to get lost in familiar locations. They also have trouble following traffic signals. Also, sometimes; it’s hard for them to move their feet from the gas to the brake pedal.
Richard Petty once said “You’ll got home safe, so drive safe, and stay safe.” Being a racing legend, he is an advocate for safe driving to minimise the cases of road crushes that have been on the rise. He double up as the chairman of the Veterans’ Safe Driving Initiative, the initiative is aimed at guiding the veterans returning from deployment on safe driving tips. It is necessarily important since the infrastructure has changed over time. Another initiative is being run in Minnesota where the teens are guided on the important safe driving tips. Study shows that more crushes are likely to occur in teen driving than veteran driving. It is also evident that young drivers are more likely to cause a crush within six months of passing the driving test and young male are worse than the females in the field.
“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers” -Dave Barry, comedian. The number of accidents over the last ten years have drastically increased, drivers are paying less attention to the road itself. Many individuals behind the wheel of a car believe that their driving does not affect the road conditions, however it always will. The driving habits of today are catastrophic due to the reasoning that the driving will affect other lives through reckless or distracted driving, and disobeying traffic laws.