| Summary: | 碩士 === 南開科技大學 === 福祉科技與服務管理所 === 100 === Taiwan has been entering an aging society, senior drivers’ population are increasing yearly. In order to resolve senior action problem, vehicle becomes one of important transportation tools. However, following the aging of seniors, driving reaction of physiological and psychological behaviors is declining such as hearing retrogression, reaction capability, memory, and attention. Therefore, safe driving becomes an important issue due to seniors’ body aging. This study is mainly to explore senior driving behaviors, software SPSS 12.0 for Windows used to analyze survey data, 400 questionnaires sent out and 368 were sent back. After statistical analysis, results showed that most senior drivers are male and they almost felt no problem to drive whenever to control a steering wheel and hand brake, to adjust a rear-view mirror, to back a car, or to park on a street. However, they felt uncomfortable both when to tie a safe belt and when to drive up and down the super highway. To sum up, this study showed that in order to meet senior drivers excellent driving quality, safe belt redesign may be needed and simple operational functions may also need to be considered and designed. In order to use to the complex traffic environments, this study also recommend that our senior drivers also need to change their driving habits such as to drive only a short distance, to drive not a busy time when driving in a super highway, and not to drive during the night time in order to ensure a comfortable and safe driving
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