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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think she should stick to a normal car.

By all means, let her test drive a Tesla.  But she must understand that the "self-driving" requires continuous forward-looking observation.  It cannot fully compensate for age-related reaction-time and vision deficiencies because it requires attention itself.  In fact, some of the most horrifying accidents to date have involved men in the prime of life who trusted the technology too much.

The best car is the one your mom understands best and that has the best visibility to the human eye and safety alerting technology.[/quote]

Agree. And it depends on which Tesla - we have an X with a normal steering wheel and levers for turn signals, wipers, and gear shift, and an X with the steering yoke with no levers. I would not recommend the one with a yoke. Aside from the rectangular yoke, the gear shifting is done from the touch screen, which takes a while to get used to. The turn signals are buttons on the yoke, which I still find annoying, especially on roundabouts. When I picked up this car from the dealer, I had to go back inside to ask them how to put it in gear.

My elderly dad had no problem with the X with a normal steering wheel with a lever for shifting gears. But he is very tech savvy and also has spent a lot of time in electric golf carts, and I think driving a Tesla is like driving a giant golf cart sometimes.

Maybe I am underestimating people’s ability to adjust, but I think the latest models with the yoke and no levers for turn signals, headlights, wipers, or gears, is a valley too far. [/quote]

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