{"id":2040,"date":"2005-12-24T14:22:16","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T14:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2005-12-24T14:22:16","modified_gmt":"2005-12-24T14:22:16","slug":"boomers_impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2040","title":{"rendered":"Boomers Impact on Car Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2005\/12\/20\/aging-boomers-changing-face-of-automobile-design\/\">Chris Paukert<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>But to the rapidly aging Baby Boomer population, a plunging windowline and promises of 120hp\/liter aren&rsquo;t what matters: strong door hinges and louder warning chimes are. So says Automotive Body Repair News (ABRN), which examines (and predicts) the effect of a growing senior populace on the face of car design.<br \/>\nAdvances in active and passive safety top the list of retiree-friendly developments, along with primary and secondary controls that are easier to operate for those with decreasing motor and visual skills. Among the ideas already gaining traction are:<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Paukert: But to the rapidly aging Baby Boomer population, a plunging windowline and promises of 120hp\/liter aren&rsquo;t what matters: strong door hinges and louder warning chimes are. So says Automotive Body Repair News (ABRN), which examines (and predicts) the effect of a growing senior populace on the face of car design. Advances in active [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}