Driving, navigation, and vehicular technology: Experiences of older drivers and their co-pilots

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 403-410

  Vrkljan, Brenda H ^a   Polgar, Janice Miller ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Co pilots; Older drivers; Vehicular technology

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CAR; CAR DRIVING; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPOUSE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AUTOMOBILES; CANADA; COMMUNICATION; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; LOCATION DIRECTORIES AND SIGNS; MALE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MIDDLE AGED; SPOUSES;

EID: 36248986707     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580701576423     Document Type: Article

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