{"id":1953,"date":"2009-11-27T12:14:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T16:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2009-11-27T11:15:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T15:15:51","slug":"cars-for-an-under-served-market-aging-boomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/27\/cars-for-an-under-served-market-aging-boomers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars for an under-served market: aging boomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/features\/hc-humor-boomers-shea1118.artnov18,0,1992774.column\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Shea<\/a> looks at the design innovations needed to serve the new growing market for appropriate vehicles for aging baby boomers:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What is missing is a vehicle specifically designed to accommodate baby boomers and their ever evolving driving needs.<\/p>\n<p>The car I have in mind for this huge block, the Coupe de Coot, would include the following characteristics:<\/p>\n<p>Size: The older people get, the larger the vehicles they prefer. If Buick made buses, you wouldn&#8217;t be able to get a parking spot at the senior center. The Coupe de Coot would make a Hummer look like a Mini Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>Windows: They would be large and wrap-a-around to afford excellent visibility in all directions at all times. Also, the glass would automatically tint after dark to produce a night-vision goggles effect.<\/p>\n<p>Turn signals: The interior indicator lights would be the size of frying pans, flash like emergency strobes when engaged, be accompanied by a Big Ben-level bonging sound, and automatically turn themselves off after an hour.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to Kennedy How for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Shea looks at the design innovations needed to serve the new growing market for appropriate vehicles for aging baby boomers: What is missing is a vehicle specifically designed to accommodate baby boomers and their ever evolving driving needs. The car I have in mind for this huge block, the Coupe de Coot, would include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[407,111],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","tag-babyboomers","tag-cars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-vv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}