ADVANCED TRANSPORT TELEMATICS (ATT) AND ELDERLY DRIVERS: BENEFITS AND SAFETY IMPLICATIONS

This paper examines the benefits and safety implications that ATT systems can provide to drivers aged 65 and older. Overall, the main findings were: volunteers generally liked the devices that were evaluated and found them both easy to use and useful; many subjects could see benefits in the technology in terms of encouraging them to drive to places to which they would not otherwise drive; some ATT systems were seen to increase the visual and mental workload involved in the driving task; although absolute safety can never be proven nor guaranteed, no major safety concerns arose from the trials (A) For the covering abstract see IRRD 887751.