Drivers 65 or older represent 15 percent of the motoring population today. By 2025 they will make up one in every four drivers. These older drivers “are on the road the least amount of time, but have the greatest amount of fatalities,” said Johnell Brooks, an assistant professor of psychology at Clemson University. Brooks is helping to direct studies on older drivers in South Carolina and find ways to help them drive better, or, if necessary, stop driving.

For the nearly five years I have been at DriveSafety, we have been involved with the folks at Clemson. Our relationship goes back nearly ten years including people from the psychology and engineering departments.

I have been overly impressed by the caliber of people at Clemson, their dedication to good science, and their willingness to invest the time and talent into the right projects.

We appreciate the realtionship we have built with Dr. Brooks, her colleagues, staff and graduate students. They are second to none. We look forward to cotinuing and building upon this relationship. Our mutual goal is to improved driving and road safety in the older driver population.