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🚘🚗 Automakers Adding Features for OLDER DRIVERS (AARP ARTICLE)

SummerOnTheWay1 — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 00:56:39 GMT

Car designs appeal to a growing group of aging buyers.

By Julie Halpert, AARP. Updated October 12, 2023. Published October 14, 2022.

https://www.aarp.org/auto/car-buying/new-vehicle-features-for-older-drivers/

Re: 🚘🚗 Automakers Adding Features for OLDER DRIVERS (AARP ARTICLE)

Tempest332 — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:56:19 GMT

Safety features like those glaring projector headlamps that blind other drivers.

Re: 🚘🚗 Automakers Adding Features for OLDER DRIVERS (AARP ARTICLE)

SummerOnTheWay1 — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:07:26 GMT

(Friday 1/19/24)

I am grateful I am now retired and not driving when it is dark @Tempest332 . My Eye Doctor had "tried" to push the NO GLARE lenses for my glasses. Told him, NO sale = I no longer drive at night and they do NOT help.... 🙄

Re: 🚘🚗 Automakers Adding Features for OLDER DRIVERS (AARP ARTICLE)

Tempest332 — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:11:55 GMT

I was tempted to go for the non glare coating, though they get smudgy. I seldom go out in daylight & probably 75% of what little driving I do is in light hours (my drive to work). I miss my tinted glass in the car, not for daylight hours but to combat the glaring projector lamps of SUV's.

Re: 🚘🚗 Automakers Adding Features for OLDER DRIVERS (AARP ARTICLE)

Tempest332 — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:32:34 GMT

Other than the Auto dimming mirror, one other feature I miss I had on my high end Early/mid '90's beaters was the HUD (Head Up Display), which projects your speed & basic dash functions on the lower windshield, thought this should be on EVERY vehicle for safety, but somehow it disappeared in favor of large touch screens.