Baby Boomer-friendly vehicles
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GM is coming out with vehicles that are more adaptive to older eyes, older bodies. And other automakers are thinking to follow suit. As Baby Boomers get older and reach retirement age, along with it come the health related issues and reduced eyesight. This is hightime for automobile makers to take notice and redesign the cars to accommodate this changing needs of Baby Boomers. Make no mistake. For those manufacturers that sieze this opportunity, it is big business. Apparently, GM is coming out with vehicles equipped with high-tech gadgets that help with blind-spot monitoring, lane departure warnings and so on.
Chuck Nyren of the Advertising to Baby Boomers blog has posted the following nice post covering the recent Business Week article on the subject, ‘The coming Boom in Boomer Friendly Transport‘, as well as his own prediction on the topic much earlier. This articles also talks about the need for the roads, road signs themselves to change to be more convenient on the aging bodies. Click on the links above for further reading on this topic.
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There are gobs of devices and technology to help the disabled function “normally” in a car. No longer do they have to settle for certain kinds of cars. Check out:
http://www.accessunlimited.com/
(Adaptive vehicle modification)
http://www.fminow.com/
(Converting vehicles to wheelchair accessibility)
http://www.harmarmobility.com/
(Lift and ramp products with 3 year fully transferable warranty)
http://www.libertymotorsusa.com/
(Exclusive distributor of Liberty wheelchair accessible minivans)
Congrats. to GM for finally opening their eyes to the needs and wants of the general public and not on what they think will sell. Maybe GM can make a turnaround and compete with foreign auto manufacturers.