Luxury car makers need to make tech that the elderly can use and understand.
My neighbor is 85 and bought a new S Class Mercedes a few years ago. As his friend, this car has been a nightmare for me to deal with.
The dealer connected his phone to the system and gave him a tutorial on how to use the car - information that was promptly forgotten five minutes after he left the dealership. We live two hours from that dealer.
About once a week he asks me to "reset" his car for him. That means I have to reset his ac temp, put his radio back on the 1940's channel, and fix any other thing he recently messed with. Half the time, I have to turn off the seat heaters that he says he doesn't remember turning on.
He still can't answer a call when he is driving. The cruise control is so complicated for him that he won't use it.
These cars are too complicated for older drivers. BMW, Mercedes, Audi, they all need to come up with a package for these people so they can drive and operate the car. Hell, they could even charge more for it and they would buy it because they can't figure out the cars as they now sit.
To me its also a safety issue because instead of driving the car, they are now fiddling with buttons, taking their attention off the road.
They need to dumb down these cars for their target market drivers.