1 00:00:11,277 --> 00:00:13,816 Tonight, I hold up a jar. 2 00:00:14,432 --> 00:00:16,792 James points at a hill. 3 00:00:18,272 --> 00:00:19,952 Richard eats a sandwich. 4 00:00:21,224 --> 00:00:26,923 <font color="#3399CC">Subtitles by </font><font color="ffffff">MemoryOnSmells</font> <font color="#3399CC">http://UKsubtitles.ru.</font> 5 00:00:28,032 --> 00:00:34,831 Hello! Hello and welcome! Thank you so much, everybody! Thank you. 6 00:00:34,832 --> 00:00:38,391 We start tonight with a big and important issue. 7 00:00:38,392 --> 00:00:40,231 You see, back in 1975, 8 00:00:40,232 --> 00:00:45,631 just 15% of people aged over 70 had a driving license. 9 00:00:45,632 --> 00:00:49,071 Today, it's more than 60%, and that means 10 00:00:49,072 --> 00:00:54,791 the roads are full of people whose eyes are broken and whose feet hurt. 11 00:00:54,792 --> 00:00:58,871 And car-makers are just not recognising this fact. 12 00:00:58,872 --> 00:01:02,230 Most modern cars are made for techno-savvy teenagers. 13 00:01:02,231 --> 00:01:04,730 Yeah, my mother, she just says all she wants from a car 14 00:01:04,770 --> 00:01:06,169 is Classic FM and a heater 15 00:01:06,170 --> 00:01:08,969 and everything else is a waste of money and annoying 16 00:01:08,970 --> 00:01:10,649 and possibly even dangerous. 17 00:01:10,650 --> 00:01:14,291 Which is why Jeremy and I decided it was time we went out and bought 18 00:01:14,292 --> 00:01:19,571 a car to modify specially for today's enormous army of pensioner drivers. 19 00:01:22,011 --> 00:01:24,971 This meant heading to the Top Gear Technology Centre - 20 00:01:24,972 --> 00:01:28,530 the birthplace of all our great projects. 21 00:01:28,531 --> 00:01:31,851 And, while Richard went off to buy a car which we could modify, 22 00:01:31,852 --> 00:01:34,851 I examined the scale of the problem. 23 00:01:37,051 --> 00:01:40,691 This Volvo has very few buttons, and that's a good thing, but each 24 00:01:40,692 --> 00:01:45,810 one seems to do 28 different things depending on how you push it. 25 00:01:45,811 --> 00:01:50,370 What does My Car mean? BLIS? DSTC? 26 00:01:50,371 --> 00:01:53,611 Collision Warning? Why would you want to turn that off?! 27 00:01:53,612 --> 00:01:56,250 And look at these - if you're 85, 28 00:01:56,251 --> 00:01:58,851 these are just out-of-focus hieroglyphics! 29 00:02:00,211 --> 00:02:02,731 Things were just as bad in this Ford Focus. 30 00:02:05,771 --> 00:02:08,690 What does Block 5A mean? 31 00:02:08,691 --> 00:02:10,490 There's literally nothing, 32 00:02:10,491 --> 00:02:14,290 nothing on here which is old-people friendly. 33 00:02:14,291 --> 00:02:17,251 "Press source for USB BT line in." 34 00:02:18,771 --> 00:02:21,490 I'm sure all this makes perfect sense 35 00:02:21,491 --> 00:02:23,850 to the foetus that designed it, 36 00:02:23,851 --> 00:02:28,531 but to anyone over 65 it is just incomprehensible gibberish. 37 00:02:29,731 --> 00:02:33,369 'Before I had a chance to get to grips with the Citroen...' 38 00:02:33,370 --> 00:02:37,331 Oh, for BLEEP sake! '..Richard was back with the car he'd bought - 39 00:02:37,332 --> 00:02:41,490 'a Fiat Multipla, famous for having three seats in the front 40 00:02:41,491 --> 00:02:43,331 'and three in the back. 41 00:02:44,851 --> 00:02:48,651 'To decide what to do with it, we set up a mood room.' 42 00:03:03,371 --> 00:03:06,849 All top designers use rooms like this to put them into 43 00:03:06,850 --> 00:03:10,691 the actual mind of the customers they're trying to attract. 44 00:03:10,692 --> 00:03:15,450 So, for example, we have an early vacuum cleaner, a one-bar heater, 45 00:03:15,451 --> 00:03:18,249 a TV listings magazine, many of which are available, 46 00:03:18,250 --> 00:03:21,369 with the programmes we want to watch highlighted. 47 00:03:21,370 --> 00:03:24,249 It really is just like being in James May's front room. 48 00:03:24,250 --> 00:03:27,011 Well, where do you think we got everything from? 49 00:03:29,451 --> 00:03:32,890 What I'm seeing with every single thing in here 50 00:03:32,891 --> 00:03:37,010 is simplicity and comfort. 51 00:03:37,011 --> 00:03:42,690 Comfort on the chair, simplicity of the mop, the kettle, the TV. 52 00:03:42,691 --> 00:03:44,650 Everything is simple. 53 00:03:44,651 --> 00:03:47,370 It's simple... straightforward and yet, 54 00:03:47,371 --> 00:03:50,491 in the case of this small sofa, also strangely itchy. 55 00:03:52,371 --> 00:03:58,330 After several intense hours in the mood room, we at least knew 56 00:03:58,331 --> 00:04:01,931 what colour our car should be, so we went off to get some paint. 57 00:04:06,291 --> 00:04:11,530 Excuse me, you know this machine, can you match the colours of things? 58 00:04:11,531 --> 00:04:12,890 Yeah, we can try. 59 00:04:12,891 --> 00:04:17,130 Can you match the colour of this hearing aid, this bit, 60 00:04:17,131 --> 00:04:20,331 specifically that bit. That is a symphony in beige. 61 00:04:20,332 --> 00:04:23,970 That's the colour we want. Can it really do that? 62 00:04:23,971 --> 00:04:28,131 So analyse the colour of the hearing aid. Can it do my left nipple? 63 00:04:32,531 --> 00:04:34,730 With the paint sorted, 64 00:04:34,731 --> 00:04:38,531 we went back to the Top Gear Technology Centre to begin work. 65 00:04:41,131 --> 00:04:46,330 Look at this dash. Speedo - out of focus. Radio - too complicated. 66 00:04:46,331 --> 00:04:50,010 It's all going to be changed, all of it. 67 00:04:50,011 --> 00:04:53,409 I've been thinking about safety and not just for the car's occupants. 68 00:04:53,410 --> 00:04:56,769 So, with that in mind, old people find it very difficult to look around 69 00:04:56,770 --> 00:04:59,329 when they're reversing - it's just a fact - 70 00:04:59,330 --> 00:05:02,291 so I'm planning a system for the rear, to help them 71 00:05:02,292 --> 00:05:07,610 stop reversing into garage walls and lampposts, their wives. 72 00:05:07,611 --> 00:05:10,929 I'm also planning much, much bigger door mirrors. 73 00:05:10,930 --> 00:05:14,489 Then, at the front, a radical redesign of the front bumper 74 00:05:14,490 --> 00:05:17,811 to avoid and minimise expensive bodywork damage. 75 00:05:17,812 --> 00:05:19,051 I'm thinking. 76 00:05:23,731 --> 00:05:25,250 After several hours, 77 00:05:25,251 --> 00:05:28,491 Jeremy's dashboard was beginning to take shape. 78 00:05:33,011 --> 00:05:35,730 Um, airbags. Yeah. 79 00:05:35,731 --> 00:05:39,249 Dangerous, because you're not allowed to put children in the front seat 80 00:05:39,250 --> 00:05:42,729 with them there because they're too delicate. Yeah. 81 00:05:42,730 --> 00:05:45,649 Old people, they tend to sit quite far forwards even 82 00:05:45,650 --> 00:05:48,689 when they're not driving. And they're just as delicate as children. 83 00:05:48,690 --> 00:05:52,169 There you go - danger. So I think we get rid of them. Can I have them? 84 00:05:52,170 --> 00:05:54,089 Yeah, I don't need them. I've got a plan. 85 00:05:54,090 --> 00:05:56,289 I'll have your airbags out in literally... 86 00:05:56,290 --> 00:05:59,411 Are you sure this is...? I'm not sure this is... Yes! 87 00:05:59,412 --> 00:06:04,130 But the airbag had to be defused by cutting one of the two wires. 88 00:06:04,131 --> 00:06:08,370 Which one do I cut? One presumably sets the bomb off. 89 00:06:08,371 --> 00:06:12,050 Well, not bomb, but explosives. Yeah. 90 00:06:12,051 --> 00:06:15,369 How much explosive is in an airbag? Quite a lot. Is there? 91 00:06:15,370 --> 00:06:17,811 Is it really a lot? It is, genuinely it's a lot. 92 00:06:17,812 --> 00:06:20,850 You can get burns from it. It's a lot. 93 00:06:20,851 --> 00:06:25,491 So let's get inside the mind of the man who made it. He's Italian. Yeah. 94 00:06:26,811 --> 00:06:29,331 So if I think it's blue, it's probably brown. 95 00:06:34,531 --> 00:06:38,891 Wait! Yeah, no, you see, brown - that might be what they want you to think. 96 00:06:45,131 --> 00:06:49,530 Wait! Wait. What colours are in the Italian flag? 97 00:06:49,531 --> 00:06:50,891 None of those. 98 00:07:06,451 --> 00:07:08,569 Ah, you see! It was easy! I wasn't worried. 99 00:07:08,570 --> 00:07:11,131 We could just edit all that stuff out. Yeah. 100 00:07:12,731 --> 00:07:16,369 While Hammond continued with his safety features, I started 101 00:07:16,370 --> 00:07:20,371 making a new dashboard and soon had something to show my colleague. 102 00:07:22,211 --> 00:07:25,649 You know elderly people like to drive quite slowly? 103 00:07:25,650 --> 00:07:26,969 Yeah, like James. Exactly. 104 00:07:26,970 --> 00:07:29,129 So this is what I've done to get round the problem. 105 00:07:29,130 --> 00:07:32,371 Brilliant - so it only reads 20 even if they're doing 80 miles an hour. 106 00:07:32,372 --> 00:07:37,410 115! "I'm only doing 17 miles an hour," so they're happy. 107 00:07:37,411 --> 00:07:40...
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