She is from HK, which has a comparable level of tech to the US. While culture plays a part, her issue is largely an aspect of her personality, she is resistant to change. She doesn't like it when something in her life deviates from her routine. I am pretty sure I am not the only one with parents with this similar traits.This is it. I would stick w an ICE vehicle with familiar controls.
I feel for you. Your parents are from PRC? Or perhaps HK? The blinding speed of change in those places, to become some of the most technically advanced societies on the planet (definitely surpassing the UK, and even the USA in some respects). It's happened really since the 1960s.
That leaves people behind. Particularly if your parents did not benefit from the educational revolutions that took place in the 1950s & 60s in urban China and HK at least (however, the Cultural Revolution in turn essentially caused a 10 year loss of progress - many of those people never caught up, arguably).
If one emigrates to a country with a foreign language, one often winds up concentrating one's ties and social activity with other people from the Home Country. I know plenty of Brits in Canada or USA who never seemed to have left "old Blighty". They then found, of course, that you can't go home again - the home country goes its own way, without you.
And thus, technology is a tremendous challenge. My mother never mastered online banking, mobile phones etc. She has never used an ATM. But she had been a telephone operator in the days of manual exchanges. And of course as her memory issues grow ... things get worse. I wouldn't have expected her to be able to plug in a USB.
This mean it takes herculean effort to get her to change. She will complain that the bank charges her fees, but won't change account without a lot of prodding. She will refuse to learn things and will make only token efforts.
The same trait can be used as an advantage. She has shown that she can learn stuff if there's some perceived benefit. She has largely learn how to use Whatsapp on her own because she wanted to keep in touch with her siblings. She is adverse to loss, but is reluctant to make changes to her portfolio once it's in place. It's just so hard to get her to make changes to her benefits, so I have to pick my battles. Getting her to learn how to adopt to new car technology is not one of them.
Statistics: Posted by gavinsiu — Mon Nov 25, 2024 7:00 am