Transportation Technology and Safety
Ginzler: Transportation Technology
By: Elinor Ginzler | Source: AARP.org | December 2008
Elinor Ginzler is a national expert on independent living and aging issues. She currently serves as AARP's lead spokesperson on caregiving, housing, and mobility issues, including older drivers' safety.
This 1958 Chevrolet Brookwood station wagon reminds us of how far car technology has come in 50 years.
Photo: Brewster Thackeray
Pedestrian 'goat paths' are abundant in suburbs without proper walking trails or sidewalks.
At the recent 15th annual Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, I delivered a simple message: People in a rapidly aging society need to feel safe while traveling throughout their communities. Experts in attendance—global experts using new technologies to design 21st-century vehicles and transportation networks for greater efficiency and safety— agreed that consumers could use help in getting around safely, and they demonstrated technologies that promise to do just that.... Back to Article
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