Keeping Older Drivers On the Road

ArkRescue

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"ScienceDaily (Apr. 22, 2012) — A unique research car which monitors our concentration, stress levels and driving habits while we're sat behind the steering wheel is being used to develop new technologies to support older drivers.

The Intelligent Transport team at Newcastle University have converted an electric car into a mobile laboratory.

Dubbed 'DriveLAB', the car is kitted out with tracking systems, eye trackers and bio-monitors in an effort to understand the challenges faced by older drivers and to identify where the key stress points are."

Keeping older drivers on the road
 
Crewdawg141

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ArkRescue said:
"ScienceDaily (Apr. 22, 2012) — A unique research car which monitors our concentration, stress levels and driving habits while we're sat behind the steering wheel is being used to develop new technologies to support older drivers.

The Intelligent Transport team at Newcastle University have converted an electric car into a mobile laboratory.

Dubbed 'DriveLAB', the car is kitted out with tracking systems, eye trackers and bio-monitors in an effort to understand the challenges faced by older drivers and to identify where the key stress points are."

Keeping older drivers on the road
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Unfortunately this is another "Which side of the sword do you want to fall on?" arguement. My dad is developing dementia and it has been suggested to take his priviledges away in the near future. This pains me as he is isolated enough currently and doing such will add to it, on the other side of the coin I can see the possibility of him not knowing where he is or what he is doing and possibly causing an accident because of a changing mental state.

The tools in the story sound nice but until a car will be fully automated for people like the Elderly or Handicapped, things will not improve for all people involved.
 
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Crewdawg141 said:
Unfortunately this is another "Which side of the sword do you want to fall on?" arguement. My dad is developing dementia and it has been suggested to take his priviledges away in the near future. This pains me as he is isolated enough currently and doing such will add to it, on the other side of the coin I can see the possibility of him not knowing where he is or what he is doing and possibly causing an accident because of a changing mental state.

The tools in the story sound nice but until a car will be fully automated for people like the Elderly or Handicapped, things will not improve for all people involved.
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An older and very dear family friend went downhill quite fast with Dementia. He ended up lost in Baltimore, and the police called us (listed in his phone under ICE). We had to go get him and bring him and his car home.

The next time the police called us from near Richmond) OMG not again we are thinking. They said he was driving down the wrong side of the road :yikes:. So it was then we took the car keys and called his son in FL to get involved. Now he's in a senior home in FL where he gets no visitors, had he been placed locally he'd have visitors regularly - we haven't seen him since, oh well.
 
bcp

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Anyone that has been in the car with an older driver most likely realizes that a good deal of the stress might come from the passengers screaming for their lives.
 
Crewdawg141

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bcp said:
Anyone that has been in the car with an older driver most likely realizes that a good deal of the stress might come from the passengers screaming for their lives.
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My older driver of a mother stresses me the Eff out when she is riding with me, I keep threatening her with sleeping masks or a new prescription from her eye doctor.
 
Crewdawg141

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ArkRescue said:
An older and very dear family friend went downhill quite fast with Dementia. He ended up lost in Baltimore, and the police called us (listed in his phone under ICE). We had to go get him and bring him and his car home.

The next time the police called us from near Richmond) OMG not again we are thinking. They said he was driving down the wrong side of the road :yikes:. So it was then we took the car keys and called his son in FL to get involved. Now he's in a senior home in FL where he gets no visitors, had he been placed locally he'd have visitors regularly - we haven't seen him since, oh well.
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That is a sad story! My mom has wanted to move to FL for years but my dad has always resisted. Now the doctors say that for people developing such conditions it is better to NOT move as it will not throw their entire world upside down going from lost and knowing that you can find a way home to being lost and having no idea of where you are at all or even how you got there.
 
bcp

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When I die, I want to die peaceful in my sleep Just like my grandfather
Not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.
 
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Crewdawg141 said:
Quite possibly. Judging from your personality on here I can see your wife being your personal Warden, complete with shiney boots and whips.
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Funny you would say that, when people have asked how we met, Ive told them that I was in prison, she was working as a guard.....
 
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