The occasion of the Chongyang Festival coincided with the recent Ministry of Public Security formally introduced the "abolition of the application for small cars, small automatic cars, moped driving license 70 years old age limit" policy, through the memory, judgment, reflexes, the test of 70 years of age or older, you can continue to test and receive the relevant driver's license.
This is a surprise for some of the elderly, after all, there are still a lot of elderly people in the country's retirement life is not just a "square dance", like the foreign old couple can drive around the world believe that they are also more eager.
But now a lot of models are focusing on technology and youth, although young people have become the "main force" to buy a car, but for the elderly car group, some of the features for them is not "very friendly".
Now the big screen has become mainstream, and even some cars have "in-car theater" function, but some models in the center of the design is a little too "radical", they completely canceled the physical buttons, all the operations need to be the center of the screen! All the operations need to be completed in the center screen. This is not very convenient for young people to operate, not to mention for the smart phone are not very understandable to the elderly group. So at present, the center control design or add some frequency of use of physical buttons is the best choice, not only to facilitate the use of the elderly, at the same time, young people in the driving process is also more convenient "blind manipulation", higher security.
Speaking of the front touch screen without physical buttons I believe some people will retort that I use voice control is not on the line? Indeed, now with the development of technology, as well as each of us at home can have a "little love classmates", more people began to use voice to control the vehicle. However, for most of the elderly, this question is still a bit "super outline". Sometimes their thinking can not keep up with the voice assistant, easy to cause do not understand the instructions, and some elderly people can not hear or speak clearly, can not communicate with the voice assistant normally. Such a situation or suggest some models to launch some physical buttons more "low" models, reduce some "fancy".
Adaptive cruise control can be said to be a relatively hot configuration in recent years, and its appearance does bring a lot of convenience for our travel. However, for the elderly, this configuration of the operation of the difficulty is not low, even if some young people still can not use the adaptive cruise function. And due to the problem of operating logic, some models of adaptive cruise control is easy to be mistakenly touched, which will have a certain impact on the elderly.
The electronic gear lever is one of the most popular features among young people nowadays, which is not only compact and beautiful, but also has a strong sense of technology. However, for some older people, the electronic gear lever is sometimes really do not understand, especially when the gear tip is relatively small to see clearly. There is also a situation that we believe that young people may also encounter in the use of some of the electronic gear lever force is not a good grasp of easy to hang the wrong gear, the elderly reaction is slower to hang the wrong gear is more likely to be dangerous.
Nowadays, due to the popularity of electric vehicles, some older people also choose to buy electric models. However, there is a problem in that electric vehicles are generally equipped with a kinetic energy recovery system in order to increase their range, which is a good thing. However, some models of kinetic energy recovery system even in the lowest gear is still a strong sense of drag, which is not very comfortable for young people to drive, not to mention the elderly. So some models can actually add the function of turning off the kinetic energy recovery, which is more comfortable for the elderly to drive.
While young users are still the main consumers, it's a real problem for car companies to take care of this "niche group" of older consumers, and whether the return is greater than the investment. But with the implementation of the new policy, the elderly driving age limit liberalization, I believe that many elderly people began to re-plan their retirement life. For the elderly, we still need to take into account their actual needs.
This article comes from the authors of the Motor Home Car Family, and does not represent the viewpoint position of the Motor Home.