{"id":10072,"date":"2021-01-19T03:15:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T03:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/east-asia\/article\/3118271\/how-japans-carmakers-are-redesigning-vehicles-elderly-drivers"},"modified":"2021-01-19T03:15:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T03:15:32","slug":"how-japans-carmakers-are-redesigning-vehicles-for-elderly-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/how-japans-carmakers-are-redesigning-vehicles-for-elderly-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"How Japan\u2019s carmakers are redesigning vehicles for elderly drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"Carmakers in Japan, where almost 30 per cent of the population is 65 or older, are taking the lead on adapting cars so the nation\u2019s legions of elderly drivers can feel more confident \u2013 and be safer \u2013 behind the wheel.A run of accidents involving elderly drivers has increased the pressure from regulators to standardise advanced features. Automatic brakes will be required for all new vehicles sold domestically from this year, for example, and car companies from Toyota to Nissan are employing\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/east-asia\/article\/3118271\/how-japans-carmakers-are-redesigning-vehicles-elderly-drivers\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carmakers in Japan, where almost 30 per cent of the population is 65 or older, are taking the lead on adapting cars so the nation\u2019s legions of elderly drivers can feel more confident \u2013 and be safer \u2013 behind the wheel.A run of accidents involving elderl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":743,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10073,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions\/10073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}