A shot of the Red Hill Valley Parkway in Hamilton, Ont. A road skills study is recruiting healthy adults between the ages of 65 and 79 and to figure out how they're driving and what improvements they can attain in the years to come.The modernization of cars and changing driving habits of those over 65 are the subject of a road safety study underway in Hamilton, Ont.
Brenada Vrkljan, professor at the School of Rehabilitation Science at McMaster University says they’ve had an “incredible response” from potential candidates keen on hosting a device recording how they drive over a month.Researchers are partnering with the McMaster Automotive Resource Center which has been doing advanced studies on the modernization of road vehicles, essentially moving from machines to computers on wheels.
Recruitment is ongoing in conjunction with McMaster EcoCAR students, a group in a four-year competition engineering next-generation battery electric vehicles .That team is also seeking subjects not only to understand those who’ve had a lifetime of driving, but also assess the overall mobility of people over 65.